From: Jody G. <jod...@gm...> - 2012-08-05 01:07:15
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I with mark the proposal as withdrawn. I assume when you use the word "we" are you are speaking for apache sis-dev. -- Jody Garnett On Sunday, 5 August 2012 at 8:52 AM, Martin Desruisseaux wrote: > Hello all > > Two weeks ago, we posted a request to the GeoTools PMC asking permission > to re-license portions of GeoTools 2.6. However since that time, we > reformulated our demand as a request to the OSGeo board to state > whatever the Contributor's rights, which is granted "perpetual, > irrevocable, worldwide, royaltyfree, license to use, copy, prepare > derivative works of, publicly display or perform, and distribute the > Submission", include the right to re-license his own code. Adrian > Custer, who wrote the Copyright Assignment together with a Lawyer, > confirmed us very clearly that the intend was to give unrestricted > rights to the contributor over his own code, including re-licensing, > providing that all other contributions are removed. This is also the > right of those who signed the Contributor Agreement instead than the > Copyright Assignment. > > The OSGeo board is expected to take a decision in their meeting > scheduled August 9. If the OSGeo vote is positive, then we would like to > withdrawn our request to the GeoTools PMC. We decided to re-license only > the code that we wrote, with all other contributions omitted or rolled > back. Of course the procedure can continue if the GeoTools community > still wants to examine the question, but it could be driven as a > procedure independent of our current request. > > Regards, > > Martin > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > GeoTools-Devel mailing list > Geo...@li... (mailto:Geo...@li...) > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel > > |