Hey all, Heather Meeker gave us a present for the new year! We have a draft copyright assignment agreement which you can see at:
http://docs.codehaus.org/download/attachments/9765352/010-GtCopyright-HJMversion_FINAL.odt as an attachment to the Geotools Copyright Assignment wiki page http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Geotools+Legal+Review for your reading pleasure. I think it does everything we want it to do. Comments are welcome; formatting issues can be dealt with later. Going forward, we need to: 1) Get the OSGeo board to agree to the text. Presumably this needs to be brought up as a disscussion item to an OSGeo board meeting. Chris Holmes, are you willing to take this on since you were willing to run liaison between us and the Board? 2) Reach, among ourselves, a consensus path for Geotools copyright. Our choice will be either to use this document to give the copyright to OSGeo or to use the 'Fiduciary License Agreement' (see http://www.france.fsfeurope.org/projects/ftf/fiduciary.en.html ) to give the copyright to the FSFeu, if they will have us. The former gives us a tighter integration into OSGeo, the latter may give us a stronger legal backing. We can have that discussion in a structured way in January. The best we can hope for is to give one organisation most of the copyright to the code since some past authors have already stated they will not sign any agreement. For future contributions, we can decide if we want to force or merely recommend that authors sign the document. 3) Do all the grunt work to GRADUATE. Get the document signed by as many people as possible, change the headers, slave under Jody's direction to redo the provenance review, bleed, cry and commit. cheers, --adrian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
