Thanks.
Does it make sense to include copyright notices for each change? If they
build up to the point people ignore them, if they aren't already ignoring
them ;-), then it negates any value from having them there in the first
place.
On 16 July 2010 15:39, strk s...@keybit.net wrote:
On Fri,
This may be why PostgreSQL chooses to use the fictitious PostgreSQL
Developers Group for their copyright, however, I think we can cross
the bridge when we come to it. Doesn't seem to be slowing down Linux
at all.
P
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Andrew Ross g...@rogers.com wrote:
Thanks.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 07:53:33PM -0400, Andrew Ross wrote:
Hi Tom, All
Saw the copyright notice in the change. Copyright for geos seems to be held
by a number of people and organizations. That seems legally murky to me but
I am not a lawyer. Has this been discussed previously?
Not that I
Multi-people joint copyright with an organization like OSGeo also owning
joint copyright is great and a very common model in open source. It doesn't
seem that this is the case for geos though. A liberal license (such as LGPL)
helps of course as it states very generous rights to use the source. My
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 08:53:59AM -0400, Andrew Ross wrote:
My concern is what prevents a contributor from withdrawing the rights to use
their source code on a whim?
I don't understand this concern.
You mean what prevents people to assign a different licence to the code they
commit to the
They can't withdraw rights to use it, they've licensed it under the
LGPL. Once it's out, it's out. Multi-copyright projects are all over
the place, it's not a big deal. The only thing copyright assignment
gets you is the ability to change the license of future releases of
the code. (The old
Safe Software has made changes to GEOS code and would like to commit them
back to trunk.
A summary of the changes is below, and a patchfile is attached to trac
ticket #364.
BufferBuilder.cpp
* Fixed a rare crash in BufferBuilder::bufferLineSingleSided(..)
IsValidOp.cpp,
Hi Tom, All
Saw the copyright notice in the change. Copyright for geos seems to be held
by a number of people and organizations. That seems legally murky to me but
I am not a lawyer. Has this been discussed previously?
Related, I saw there was an OSGeo CLA in the works (
