Re: [Geotools-devel] Incubation: Update on Legal Matters

[Martin D. <mar...@ge...>]

Adrian Custer a écrit :
> The OSGeo board met last Friday to consider my proposal for the Geotools
> Copyright Assignment document. They took some decisions which they
> needed to take and decided, going forward, the process should be:
> (...snip...)

Thanks a lot to Adrian, Frank and everyone whos put their effort in this process!!


> To cover past contributions, we get as many of us as possible to sign
> the copyright assignment document. That, plus a refresh of the
> provenance review and some champagne should get us to graduate!

Sound fine :)


> To cover future contributions, we adopt the following strategy:
>         
>         We require, to maintain or gain svn access after a cutoff date
>         (say Oct 1st), that all contributors sign:
>         
>                 1) The copyright assignment document to OSGeo,
>                 
>                 2) A geotools only document that commits those with svn
>                 access to behave responsibly: to deal with the community
>                 politely, to deal with svn respectfully, i.e. follow
>                 developer guidelines) and make only legal and clean
>                 commits (i.e. third-party code is well documented, no
>                 submarine patents)...
>                 
>                 3) A yearly renewal document of the copyright assignment
>                 covering the past year's commits. 
>         
> while this involves more paperwork, the strategy should provide as solid
> a legal foundation for our code as we possibly can create. Also, an
> added advantage of the yearly renewal is to automatically triage
> inactive contributors.

Sound fine to me as well.

	Martin