On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Frank Warmerdam <[email protected]>wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have finally got a clear response back from our internal legal
> reviewer to my request to offer refinement to the text of the GeoTools
> contributor agreement. He indicated that the agreement has multiple
> issues, and that it couldn't be easily corrected to meet our
> (Google's) expectations. He suggested we might want to start over
> with a stock agreement such as Apache's.
>
You mean, this one?
http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt
>
> I'm not interested in pushing a complete rework of the contribution
> agreement, so at this point I am letting the matter drop and it
> appears that Google will not be a significant contributor to GeoTools.
> I'm rather bummed.
>
So am I. If the licence was the issue, I could understand, but being
blocked by the contributor agreement itself I find rather worrysome.
I believe we should at least consider using the Apache one.
Cheers
Andrea
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