Justin Deoliveira ha scritto: > 13. Is the code free of patents, trademarks, and do you control the > copyright? > > Do we officially control the copyright? Or are contributor agreements > still coming in? On a related note the question of who should retain > copyright has been raised by Jody. Should it be TOPP or OSGEO? > Personally I would feel more comfortable asking contributors to give up > copyright on their code to the foundation of which the project is a part > of, rather than a single company. How do others feel about this?
I agree it's easier to ask people to assign copyright to a foundation. However this issue does not seem to have stopped OL to gain traction (MetaCarta still retains the copyright afaik). > 18. If you do not intend to host any portion of this project using the > OSGeo infrastructure, why should you be considered a member project of > the OSGeo Foundation? > > Do we want to make use of any osgeo infrastructure? Or are we happy with > what we have now? If anything I might think the mailing list? I would be > ok with svn except I don't like how the commits mailing list is set up > and can't figure out who made a commit without opening the full email. Right, if we solve that switching svn would probably be the easiest. Switching a 800 users ml to another system can be painful, not sure we want that. Another system that we could think switching may be jira to trac, but I did not find any tool going in that direction (just the opposite one) and we definitely don't want to switch over manually. As for the site, we could have a single page on OSGEO pointing to our existing infrastructure. Finally, there is the file release system, which SF changes every other day lately. Yet SF has this nice download counters and a distributed delivery architecture. What can OSGEO offer in this respect? Cheers Andrea -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
