Re: [Geowebcache-devel] Project involvement

[Jody G. <jod...@gm...>]

They apply to donating to OSGeo (not project specific).

Well we can see why this task is thankless, still we can search for
(OpenGeo) and get a short list.

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Jody Garnett

On 19 October 2015 at 09:48, Kevin Smith <sm...@dr...> wrote:

> On 2015-10-18 10:42 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>
> One "thankless" tag I have been pestering Kevin about is updating the
> project headers (the project was donated to the Open Source Geospatial
> Foundation last year).
>
> So this represents a file that was started by "OpenGeo":
>
> As shown above Gabriel was working for OpenPlans, which donated their code
> last year (i.e. 2014) so we can rewrite this header to say:
>
>
> Any code that was written by Boundless can also be given the same header
> (Boundless has  a code contribution agreement with OSGeo). For any other
> authors we would need to leave the file alone - the author would retain
> copyright.
>
>
> I was told that as far as GeoWebCache goes, only the rights held by
> OpenPlans were donated to OSGeo and not those held by Boundless.  So
> anything listed as "OpenGeo" requires looking at exactly WHEN the
> contribution was made in order to figure out whether it was donated.
> Before we spun off from OpenPlans, it was donated, but in between spin off
> and renaming to Boundless, it wasn't and anything by Boundless,
> GeoSolutions, or anyone else also wasn't donated.
>
> I'd assume the code contribution agreements you're thinking of are the
> project specific ones for GeoTools and GeoServer.  I don't think that would
> apply to GeoWebCache.
>
>
> --
> Kevin Michael Smith<sm...@dr...> <sm...@dr...>
>
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