Wanted to explicitly reply to "satisfying intent", and I hope project leads agree with my take:
In the GeoTools MR fork all files have been updated with the OSGeo > copyright headers. The one thing I haven't been comfortable with is the > idea of rebasing out attribution to other contributors just because they > can't sign the CLA. I was hoping since ElasticGeo is an established open > source project released under LGPL (gt-elasticsearch) and GPL > (gs-elasticsearch) that the contributions could be recognized as having > satisfied the intent of the OSGeo CLA in this case. > Trying to establish: - Intent (personal or employer) to shared with others as open source - Permission for project leadership to do odd things (like donate to JTS, or include in a product that has both GPL and a couple EPL code) My take is your ElasticGeo work is fine: - Attribution, and a note that the work was public domain, are going to be maintained (we like to respect original authors) - Contributions made as LGPL shows the understanding that this is going to be distributed as open source - Contributions made as LGPL show no conflict with use with EPL libraries - Contributions made that extend GeoServer API also work (GPL with an exception to work with a couple EPL library) - Public domain is your cue to act as an individual and take the code across any open source boundaries - Public domain also let's the project leaders re-license etc... Net result: - If you want you could package this up, and fill in a software grant <https://www.osgeo.org/resources/corporate-contributor-license/> (one of the CLAs) indicating the work is a mix of open source and public domain code you are providing to the geoserver project. The place where we need GSP-186 is for the planet.com code which has just placed into a repository (fortunately using the GeoServer GPL w/ exception) license. If planet would donate this work to OSGeo we would be done, without their participation we are stuck changing our procedure as Andrea proposed.
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