Jody,
Thanks for your quick response. It does sound like a pain. I'll look into
the CLA.
On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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