Awesome, thanks for taking this on Adrian. I'm happy to liaison with the board on this, I believe there should be a meeting relatively soon. We just need the board to approve it as a document that can be used by projects?
Chris On Sat, December 29, 2007 4:11 am, Adrian Custer wrote: > 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-HJM > version_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 > > > > !DSPAM:4005,477610e3116982143011171! > > > -- Chris Holmes The Open Planning Project http://topp.openplans.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
