Hello Frank Le 27/07/12 00:46, Frank Warmerdam a écrit : > "The Foundation hereby grants the Contributor the nonexclusive, > perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royaltyfree, > license to use, copy, prepare derivative works of, publicly display or > perform, and distribute the Submission." > > I *perceive* this as granting back to the original contributor very broad > rights and I would be inclined to treat this as including the right to > re-license the original original contribution. That is, I believe it is > already within your rights to offer code you personally contributed > under this agreement under other licenses.
We were unsure about this interpretation, and thus asked to the board. We have always been told in the past to ask to the GeoTools PMC. The thread at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29573891 suggests that different interpretations exist. >> 5. If OSGeo requires GeoTools permission for re-licensing our code, then >> conversely we assume that GeoTools needs our agreement for re-licensing our >> above-cited work. > I do not see the rationale for the above statement. The primary purpose > of the contribution agreement is to ensure that the project can re-license > code when it has a PSC consensus on a change without having to get > additional agreement from all original contributors. I fully agree with you and we signed the copyright assignment in this purpose. The point here was to highlight what we perceived as an unbalanced treatment prior your reply to our request. Thanks you very much for bringing those clarifications, Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ GeoTools-Devel mailing list GeoTools-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
