On 27/07/12 07:31, Martin Desruisseaux wrote: > 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.
Martin, although I am a member of the PMC, I am now writing as an individual: I personally agree with Frank's interpretation that contributors can relicense their own contributions as they see fit. In fact, before seeing your email quoting Frank, I quoted this same section of the contributor agreement on another list. Martin, I welcome your approach to the OSGeo board, because the interpretation of this clause affects all OSGeo projects and should be addressed by the OSGeo board. I note that in the link you give above, it seems to me that Jody was explicitly referring to relicensing *all* of GeoTools 2.6. This is quite different to the licence that is granted to you under your contributor agreement to use your own contributions. These are quite separate issues and it would be helpful if we keep them separate as in in my view the PMC can only address questions about GeoTools, not the meaning of the OSGeo agreement. I am looking forward to the resolution of this issue. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au> Software Engineer CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Australian Resources Research Centre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
