On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au> wrote: > This kind of cross-project refactoring is a good thing, but in my view we > need to preserve the separation of licences. For example, I can't just grab > a chunk of GeoServer and commit it into the GeoTools repo and say "whatever, > it is all open source".
It is my understanding that if you're the sole author of a particular piece of code you retain the right to re-license it without having to get approval from The Open Planning Project (that is, you give TOPP the copyright without losing yours, might be wrong here). Generally speaking we never had an automatic mechanism like you describe though, to put it in place I believe we'd need quite a bit of red tape. Cheers Andrea -- Ing. Andrea Aime GeoSolutions S.A.S. Tech lead Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 mob: +39 339 8844549 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
