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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
