I am working with sjudeng and the board to see if we can get an OSGeo CLA
suitable for governments to sign (as an alternative to the public domain
dance).
I am waiting to hear back, and possibly talk to Ben who is good at this
stuff, before recommending a course of action.
--
Jody Garnett
On 5 June 2017 at 08:43, Jim Hughes <jn...@ccri.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Separate from the licensing, I believe that ElasticSearch uses Guava 18.
> GeoTools and GeoServer uses version 17.
>
> Does ElasticGeo work with Guava 17?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jim
>
>
> On 06/02/2017 05:42 PM, sjudeng wrote:
>
> 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/lat
>> est/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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