Hi Jody, after reading this mail I'm more confused than before. Right now we have a simple and clear rule, CLA or bust (it's what's written in our docs, did I misread them?) The proposal allows to open a second path for those that don't want/can't sign a CLA. Seems clear too.
What you are discussing here is new rules, which seem to made up for the occasion, while they might be correct in general, I don't think they are not a match for our documentation (happy to be proved wrong). Could you clarify and possibly make a proposal to change the GT/GS documentation accordingly, on how to handle public domain code? Cheers Andrea On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:35 PM Jody Garnett <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- Regards, Andrea Aime == GeoServer Professional Services from the experts! Visit http://goo.gl/it488V for more information. == Ing. Andrea Aime @geowolf Technical Lead GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via di Montramito 3/A 55054 Massarosa (LU) phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 1660272 mob: +39 339 8844549 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it ------------------------------------------------------- *Con riferimento alla normativa sul trattamento dei dati personali (Reg. UE 2016/679 - Regolamento generale sulla protezione dei dati “GDPR”), si precisa che ogni circostanza inerente alla presente email (il suo contenuto, gli eventuali allegati, etc.) è un dato la cui conoscenza è riservata al/i solo/i destinatario/i indicati dallo scrivente. Se il messaggio Le è giunto per errore, è tenuta/o a cancellarlo, ogni altra operazione è illecita. Le sarei comunque grato se potesse darmene notizia. This email is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. We remind that - as provided by European Regulation 2016/679 “GDPR” - copying, dissemination or use of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this email by mistake, please notify us immediately by telephone or e-mail.*
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