On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:58:59AM +1000, Tim Schaub wrote: > Hey- > > The Project Steering Committee has been discussing some issues with our > Contributor License Agreement and code copyright. While there are > associated issues that might follow from this, we are at the point where > we'll be voting on proposals to change the copyright statement in the > code source and the authors file we maintain. > > The bottom line is that by signing our CLA, contributors do not assign > copyright to anyone. Instead, our CLA is about granting a license to > the project maintainer (MetaCarta). It follows from this that the > copyright to OpenLayers is collectively held by the individuals and > corporations that signed contributor agreements. > > Thanks to Chris for his careful work deciphering things. Below are > summaries of his two proposals that we will be voting on (full message > at the bottom). > > 1. Copyright in Source > ---------------------- > > Change all source files and other copyright statements to read > "Copyright OpenLayers Contributors" instead of "Copyright MetaCarta, > Inc." In addition, include the URL for the authors file in the > copyright statement.
+1 > > 2. Corporations in Authors File > ------------------------------- > > Where we have signed CCLA documents from contributors, include the > Corporation name along with the individual's name in the authors.txt file. > > e.g. > > James Bond (Her Majesty's Secret Service) +1 -- Chris > > Thanks for voting. And again, thanks to Chris for careful deductive work. > > I'm +1 on both proposals. > > Tim > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [OpenLayers-PSC] Two proposals: Copyright in Source, Corporate > Copyright in Authors > Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:14:28 -0500 > From: Christopher Schmidt <crschm...@metacarta.com> > To: p...@openlayers.org > > Hi, > > Two proposals. Please vote on each individually. > > ---- > > Currently, the OpenLayers source files say "Copyright MetaCarta, Inc." with > a date. This is not correct; since we only have a license to code from > our contributors, and not the actual copyright of it, we should instead > change this text from: > > /* Copyright (c) 2006-2008 MetaCarta, Inc., published under the Clear BSD > * license. See http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers/license.txt > for the > * full text of the license. */ > > to > > /* Copyright (c) 2006-2009 OpenLayers Contributors, published under the > Clear > * BSD license. See > http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers/license.txt for > * the full text of the license. */ > > I am in favor of this change. (+1) > > ---- > > Currently, our doc/authors.txt list does not identify the corporate entities > associated with contributors during the time which they made contributions > to OpenLayers. (Essentially, tying a CCLA to a person.) Since the code > copyright actually belongs in part to these organizations, I recommend that > we do our best to fix this situation, by doing our best to associate users > in the d oc/authors.txt with their corporate parents where appropriate. > > For example, this might look like: > > Christopher Schmidt (MetaCarta) > Tim Schaub (OpenGeo) > Schuyler Erle (MetaCarta, Entropy Free) > > I am in favor of this change. (+1) > > Best Regards, > -- > Christopher Schmidt > MetaCarta > _______________________________________________ > PSC mailing list > p...@openlayers.org > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/psc > > -- > Tim Schaub > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > Expert service straight from the developers. > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > Dev@openlayers.org > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
