Adrian Custer a écrit :
> The OSGeo board met last Friday to consider my proposal for the Geotools
> Copyright Assignment document. They took some decisions which they
> needed to take and decided, going forward, the process should be:
> (...snip...)
Thanks a lot to Adrian, Frank and everyone whos put their effort in this
process!!
> To cover past contributions, we get as many of us as possible to sign
> the copyright assignment document. That, plus a refresh of the
> provenance review and some champagne should get us to graduate!
Sound fine :)
> To cover future contributions, we adopt the following strategy:
>
> We require, to maintain or gain svn access after a cutoff date
> (say Oct 1st), that all contributors sign:
>
> 1) The copyright assignment document to OSGeo,
>
> 2) A geotools only document that commits those with svn
> access to behave responsibly: to deal with the community
> politely, to deal with svn respectfully, i.e. follow
> developer guidelines) and make only legal and clean
> commits (i.e. third-party code is well documented, no
> submarine patents)...
>
> 3) A yearly renewal document of the copyright assignment
> covering the past year's commits.
>
> while this involves more paperwork, the strategy should provide as solid
> a legal foundation for our code as we possibly can create. Also, an
> added advantage of the yearly renewal is to automatically triage
> inactive contributors.
Sound fine to me as well.
Martin
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