You can see the language used here -
http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/welcome/license.html
Indeed we tried to make our demo code public domain, but because that was
not a license it made it even harder for people to use. We now have our
demo code as BSD.
--
Jody Garnett
On 2 June 2017 at 14:22, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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