Jody here with a few links to share:
The GeoTools PMC asked these questions from OSGeo legal council a couple
years back, the long and short of it is that this these requirements are
grounded in an international treaty (so nothing US specific).
Here are some references out of that session:
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Important questions. But I’m not sure if we have the expertise to answer. Is
there a legal expert among us? Also, since OSGeo is in the US, does that mean
that all GRASS has to comply with Us copyright laws? Many authors are not from
the US. How does this work in an international Open Source
Hi PSC,
in the incubator list the question came up if GRASS Development team
is legal entity to which the copyright can be assigned.
At time the GRASS Development team is not an incorporated entity but
usually the first copyright holder name in the source code files is
the initial author
