I'm very concerned by this too. It sucks to not get contributions from
Google. But it's even worse as an indicator of things that may scare off
others who are similar.
I'd be very much in favor of just using the Apache one, and moving to it
quickly. To reiterate for all, this is just for the contribution agreement.
We could adapt the Apache one to so it assigns copyright to LGPL pretty
easily I imagine. So we're not talking about changing the license, just the
way the license gets assigned to GeoTools.
C
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Andrea Aime
<andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmer...@pobox.com>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
>
> --
> ==
> Our support, Your Success! Visit http://opensdi.geo-solutions.it for more
> information.
> ==
>
> Ing. Andrea Aime
> @geowolf
> Technical Lead
>
> GeoSolutions S.A.S.
> Via Poggio alle Viti 1187
> 55054 Massarosa (LU)
> Italy
> phone: +39 0584 962313
> fax: +39 0584 1660272
> mob: +39 339 8844549
>
> http://www.geo-solutions.it
> http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Everyone hates slow websites. So do we.
> Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics
> Download AppDynamics Lite for free today:
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan
> _______________________________________________
> GeoTools-Devel mailing list
> GeoTools-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
>
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Everyone hates slow websites. So do we.
Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics
Download AppDynamics Lite for free today:
http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan
_______________________________________________
GeoTools-Devel mailing list
GeoTools-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
