On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 03:02:24PM +0200, Pierre GIRAUD wrote: > Hi all, and in particular PSC members, > > Currently, each person (alone or with a company) who wants to > contribute to OpenLayers must sign a CLA. > http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/HowToContribute > > It is said that "OpenLayers copyright will remain MetaCarta's until > OSGEO is ready to assume ownership".
This statement is no longer valid; wiki pages are slow to match reality :) > Does it mean that we were waiting for OpenLayers to graduate from > OSGEO incubation ? OpenLayers has graduated incubation. > Should the CLA beneficiary be modified ? No. > Is OSGEO ready to assume ownership ? Based on discussion at FOSS4G, it was agreed among the PSC members that transferring copyright to OSGeo was not an important step to moving forward with the project. There are a couple reasons for this: * OSGeo has limited resources, and the task of transferring the copyright was seen as being a burden that it was unneccesary to place on OSGeo. * MetaCarta was -- with the agreement on the "Clear BSD" license -- happy to continue to act as the copyright holder on OpenLayers. Once we established with OSGeo that this was acceptable to become an incubated project, there was not any reason brought up that it was important to switch over the copyright. At this time, MetaCarta is continuing to act as copyright holder, acting on behalf of the PSC as custodian. Is there any particular concern about this? If this is causing some kind of problem, we can discuss it, but up until now, we've essentially considered the problem 'handled', and felt no further need to pursue a change of copyright away from MetaCarta. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
