I with mark the proposal as withdrawn.
I assume when you use the word "we" are you are speaking for apache sis-dev.
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Jody Garnett
On Sunday, 5 August 2012 at 8:52 AM, Martin Desruisseaux wrote:
> 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 withdrawn our request to the GeoTools PMC.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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