We got a bit sidetracked as geotools was mentioned, and how to handle
public domain.

Net result is your proposal is fine:
- CLA for core
- individual module can use GeoServer license (gpl+Epl library)

If we want to be explicit about how to handle public domain a second
proposal could be drawn up.

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 5:14 AM Andrea Aime <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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.
>>
>
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