Thus far the "procedure" has been to ask nicely on the geoserver-devel email
list; and get approval from one of the steering committee.
You can recently see this done with some of the WPS work which I back ported in
september.
--
Jody Garnett
On Monday, 14 May 2012 at 4:34 PM, Andrea Aime wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies
> <ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au (mailto:ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au)> wrote:
> > This kind of cross-project refactoring is a good thing, but in my view we
> > need to preserve the separation of licences. For example, I can't just grab
> > a chunk of GeoServer and commit it into the GeoTools repo and say "whatever,
> > it is all open source".
> >
>
>
> It is my understanding that if you're the sole author of a particular
> piece of code
> you retain the right to re-license it without having to get approval from
> The Open Planning Project (that is, you give TOPP the copyright without losing
> yours, might be wrong here).
>
> Generally speaking we never had an automatic mechanism like you describe
> though, to put it in place I believe we'd need quite a bit of red tape.
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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