Jody, Openlayers recently had a similar discussion. I strongly suggest that a license should be required for unsupported modules too.
At some point, someone is likely to want to build upon unsupported modules and move it from unsupported to supported and this process will be much easier if you don't have to chase original authors to retrospectively ask them to sign a license agreement. Jody Garnett wrote: > My personal feeling is that we should let people have svn access > "easiliy" when making an unsupported module; and that signing > something should be one of the steps required for making the module > supported. We also should stop shipping the unsupported modules; > since the PMC as a group is not standing behind the quality, and there > is not a module maintainer around to catch bug fixes etc... > > However it may just be worth it to get people to sign something up > front (it is a straight tradeoff - the more process starting out the > less developers we get). > Jody > -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Systems Architect Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Commercial Support for Geospatial Open Source Solutions http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/SupportedProducts.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
