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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pierre GIRAUD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jun 23, 2008 5:04 AM Subject: [OpenLayers-PSC] CLA questions Dear OpenLayers PSC members, As already mentioned on the OpenLayers dev mailing list, we have several questions on the CLA. We (at camptocamp) had recent contacts with the french National Geographical Institut (IGN) as they developped a Geoportal API based on OpenLayers. They are likely to participate to the the OpenLayers developement and contribute to the project but they are blocked by legal problems. To sum up things, IGN developped a Geoportal API recently released under BSD license and currently relying on OpenLayers 2.5 [1]. There will be a new release based on the 2.6 version soon. Some of the code they wrote are bug fixes for OpenLayers as well as new functionnalities that could, for some of them, in their opinion, go into the trunk. They are expert in geography and they think there could be much improvements made in OpenLayers, for example, if we want to manage complex reference systems we often use in Europe. As they are already doing for other open source GIS softwares (Proj4, GeoServer, ...), they would be very happy to contribute to OpenLayers. But, they (public company) aren't currently ready to give contributor agreements to Metacarta (private company). Since OpenLayers is an OSGEO project and they are likely to become an OSGEO sponsor (not official yet), they would prefer the CLA beneficiary to be the foundation itself. Anyway, the Metacarta copyright affiliation is still something to be studied in detail by their jurists. Since then, IGN asked camptocamp to assist them and become the interface to find the best solution. For now, here are summarized the IGN developers willings : - contribute to OpenLayers the same way they are already doing for other open source projects (directly or by proposing patches), - avoid the issues encountered with OpenSpace (Ordonance Survey) (ie. no bug fixes proposed, no functionalities given back to OL), - try to get the OpenLayers and IGN GeoPortal to become the standard for most of the European national geographical institutes geoportals. If required, we can plan an IRC meeting on july. I hope you can help us all. Regards, Pierre ps: in Cc of this mail, there are people from camptocamp (including OL commiters as well as managers) and, Didier Richard representing IGN (for the technical part). [1] https://api.ign.fr/geoportail/ -- _________________________________________________________ Pierre GIRAUD Géomaticien, Analyste Camptocamp France SAS Savoie Technolac, BP 352 73377 Le Bourget du Lac, Cedex Tel : 00 33 4 79 44 44 93 Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.camptocamp.com _______________________________________________ PSC mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/psc _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
