On 4 October 2011 15:01, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Ian Turton <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> My new employer (Envita - http://www.envitia.com) would like to become
>> a good corporate citizen with regards to it's GeoTools use. The
>> simplest solution (I think) is to modify my committers agreement to
>> reflect my new employer (though I didn't manage to do this last time I
>> changed jobs 5 years ago) but in the long run it would make sense for
>> Envitia to become a committer in it's own right - if I've understood
>> the form right that is just a case of the requisite company office
>> signing the form to assign copyrights etc.
>>
>> Is my understanding of how this works right? or do I need to reapply
>> for commit access? It's been a long time since I last filled out the
>> forms and I can't remember how it works,
>
> As far as I know a company can sign the copyright assignment
> agreement to cover all its employees.
> However, that does not make the company a committer, commit access
> is given only to people that present themselves and go though the usual
> "get to know me, review my patch, give me commit access" process.
> The only difference is that when we ask "did you sign the copyright
> assignment"
> the answer will be "no need to, I'm covered by my company's one"

That makes sense - I'll print the form off and see if someone wants to
sign it :-)

Do we have a plan for changing people's organization?

Ian

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