[OSGeo-Discuss] ICA Working Group on Open Source Geospatial Technologies

2008-12-09 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi All, The International Cartographic Association's Executive Committee http://cartography.tuwien.ac.at/ica/ has approved the establishment of Working Group on Open Source Geospatial Technologies at its meeting last week in Chile. The Open Source Geospatial Technologies Working Group aims to

[OSGeo-Discuss] copyright question

2008-12-09 Thread Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)
Hi list, today I was in a meeting about GeoExt, and the following question came up: Is it possible for OsGeo to take copyright for a project which yet has to form and has not passed incubation as such? A commercial company has expressed issues contributing if the copyright is not owned by a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] copyright question

2008-12-09 Thread Bob Basques
All, I'm interested in this question as well, since we have some similar business needs related to non-profits and open-source project funding, things like who can/should claim to be the owner for donation seeking and such. Just philosophical stuff right now, but who knows in the future.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] copyright question

2008-12-09 Thread Howard Butler
On Dec 9, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote: Hi list, today I was in a meeting about GeoExt, and the following question came up: Is it possible for OsGeo to take copyright for a project which yet has to form and has not passed incubation as such? It's certainly much

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] copyright question

2008-12-09 Thread P Kishor
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, today I was in a meeting about GeoExt, and the following question came up: Is it possible for OsGeo to take copyright for a project which yet has to form and has not passed incubation as such?

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] copyright question

2008-12-09 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote: Hi list, today I was in a meeting about GeoExt, and the following question came up: Is it possible for OsGeo to take copyright for a project which yet has to form and has not passed incubation as such? A commercial company has expressed issues

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] copyright question

2008-12-09 Thread Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)
So if the project had been formed, but does not contain any source code as yet it's possible? Or am I misinterpreting your words? Best regards, Bart P Kishor wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, today I was in a meeting

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] copyright question

2008-12-09 Thread Frank Warmerdam
P Kishor wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, today I was in a meeting about GeoExt, and the following question came up: Is it possible for OsGeo to take copyright for a project which yet has to form and has not passed

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] copyright question

2008-12-09 Thread Frank Warmerdam
P Kishor wrote: Any right is only as good as its defense in the court. Just because reputable IP lawyers may draft copyright assignments in works that don't yet exist doesn't mean that actual copyrights in those works exist. Puneet, I don't claim that the copyright exists before the thing

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] copyright question

2008-12-09 Thread P Kishor
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Frank Warmerdam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P Kishor wrote: Any right is only as good as its defense in the court. Just because reputable IP lawyers may draft copyright assignments in works that don't yet exist doesn't mean that actual copyrights in those works

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] copyright question

2008-12-09 Thread Tim Schaub
Hey- Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote: Thanks all for this very informative thread! Best regards, Bart Bart, thanks for raising the question - and to others for responses. Here is a bit more based on conversation on #osgeo. When asked under what conditions the OSGeo would accept

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ICA Working Group on Open Source Geospatial Technologies

2008-12-09 Thread RAVI KUMAR
Hi, This is a nice development by ICA. pl give location of this information (website). Would like INCA (the Indian counterpart of ICA) informed about this. Cheers Ravi Kumar --- On Tue, 12/9/08, Suchith Anand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Suchith Anand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Membership map, querying the wiki and more...

2008-12-09 Thread Alex Mandel
Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: I'm always looking for more ways to summarise statistics about OSGeo and was reminded recently about some of the good work shown here - a map and a member list based on wiki categories and properties: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:OSGeo_Member It's not

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] copyright question

2008-12-09 Thread Chris Puttick
- P Kishor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if the project had been formed, but does not contain any source code as yet it's possible? Or am I misinterpreting your words? Well, it is entirely possible