It has been done before in the geotools library. Mostly for us government
employees who's work is in the public domain (since it was paid for by the
people).
Please understand that public domain is an alternative to copyright - not
an alternative to having a license. Indeed copyright is the stick we use to
enforce our open source license.
I cannot remember the details now but you basically put your contribution
into the public domain and we pick it up (changing the packages and so on
becoming contributors and donating it to the geotools project).
So this is really not a lot of fun; do you have a legal requirement to use
the public domain? Or are you just looking for an alternative to your
employer signing a code contribution agreement?
--
Jody Garnett
On 2 June 2017 at 14:18, sjudeng <sjud...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to make a public domain contribution to GeoTools and
> GeoServer without a CLA? I'm interested in contributing an Elasticsearch
> plugin (https://github.com/ngageoint/elasticgeo), which is licensed based
> on the GeoTools (LGPL) and GeoServer (GPL) components. My contributions to
> the plugin are public domain. I can reach out to the list again in a
> separate thread on whether this would be welcome and what would be required
> from a technical perspective but wanted to start with this question first.
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