Hi

> On 30 Oct 2018, at 15:08, Andreas Neumann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Before we go to far with the discussion here, I would first ask all of the 
> core devs if they really would like to do that.
> 
> Without an agreement in place, the code is owned by each contributor 
> separately. I know of quite a few core devs who are not keen on ceding their 
> copyright to QGIS.ORG, if the goal is to undermine the GPL license.
> 
> I am also not sure if QGIS.ORG is ready to prepare such an ownership 
> agreement.
> 
> Personally, I fail to understand what the benefits are, if we go this route. 
> On the contrary - I think we are risking to loose many core contributors if 
> we do that.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Andreas
> 
> 

Sounds like a good case for running a survey of the developers!

Regards

Tim

> On 2018-10-30 13:28, Denis Rouzaud wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Le mar. 30 oct. 2018 à 01:44, Tim Sutton <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
>>  
>> I think there are other things we could do, like introducing this 
>> non-retrospectively, so that any new code coming in is ceded to QGIS.org 
>> <http://qgis.org/> ownership and we leave whatever is in the code base 
>> as-is. Devs could cede their previous work to QGIS.org <http://qgis.org/> on 
>> an individual basis if they want to. Over time the bulk of the code may 
>> naturally become the copyright of QGIS.org <http://qgis.org/> (think version 
>> 10 here...)
>>  
>> It might be even worth starting it on parallel (as the above provess might 
>> take a year or more). The contributors curve has more an exponential than 
>> linear shape lately. 
>>  
>>  
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