Hello all
Two weeks ago, we posted a request to the GeoTools PMC asking permission
to re-license portions of GeoTools 2.6. However since that time, we
reformulated our demand as a request to the OSGeo board to state
whatever the Contributor's rights, which is granted "perpetual,
irrevocable, worldwide, royaltyfree, license to use, copy, prepare
derivative works of, publicly display or perform, and distribute the
Submission", include the right to re-license his own code. Adrian
Custer, who wrote the Copyright Assignment together with a Lawyer,
confirmed us very clearly that the intend was to give unrestricted
rights to the contributor over his own code, including re-licensing,
providing that all other contributions are removed. This is also the
right of those who signed the Contributor Agreement instead than the
Copyright Assignment.
The OSGeo board is expected to take a decision in their meeting
scheduled August 9. If the OSGeo vote is positive, then we would like to
withdrawn our request to the GeoTools PMC. We decided to re-license only
the code that we wrote, with all other contributions omitted or rolled
back. Of course the procedure can continue if the GeoTools community
still wants to examine the question, but it could be driven as a
procedure independent of our current request.
Regards,
Martin
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