It has now been a month since I passed this to the OSGeo borad, I will ask
for a status update. Sorry this is taking so long, everyone must be on
summer holiday.
--
Jody Garnett
On 7 June 2017 at 18:47, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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