Adrian Custer ha scritto: > 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
Hi, I'm reading the contribution agreement and I'm surprised... it actually makes sense to me! :) Looks good, yet I have some questions: * page one states: "except where exercise of rights in the Contribution as part of the Geotools Project is not feasible without such modification or combination." Ok, here I lost you. Examples? * page 3, section "V", states: "or any substantially similar license that meets the Open Source Definition or Free Software Definition". I feel this may be quite open to interpretation? There is nothing drawing the line of what is "substantially similar". The rest looks pretty good to me. > Going forward, we need to: > > 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. Right, what do we do with parts that we can't cover due to past authors refusing to sign? Remove from the source code base? Or can we ask these past authors to relicense their code to the public domain and then grab it back? (would that work?) > 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. LOL. Sounds good to me. Cheers Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
