Ravi wrote:
While discussing this with Free Software Foundation of India, this topic
came up, and I could not explain them the position of software under
incubation by OSGeo. May I have a pointer or thread where the status of
software under incubation is dealt, indicating,
> 1. Copy-Left
> 2. Type of licensing, GNU-GPL, BSD etc
Ravi,
I wasn't able to find a specific incubation document that addresses, it,
but it is required that projects release their code under an open source
license - in particular one approved (or clearly essentially identical to)
by OSI (http://www.opensource.org). That means that GPL, LGPL, BSD, and
quite a number of other open source licenses are considered acceptable.
We also do a code provenance review to try and ensure that the existing
code base of the project is properly contributed. This is described at:
http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/codereview.html
Current policy is that projects may choose to leave copyright with the
original contributors, some outside body or OSGeo.
Best regards,
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