Hi Niels,
that's excellent, then I guess it's time to make the PRs moving the modules
up.

Cheers
Andrea

On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 2:31 PM Niels Charlier <ni...@scitus.be> wrote:

> Hello Jody,
>
> Timothy and I worked on this project together for the same organisation
> (DOV); I believe they are the only ones who own the copyrights on the code.
>
> The problem has been completely resolved now; DOV has signed and submitted
> the CLA for the modules that were contributed to geoserver.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Niels
> On 11/05/2022 01:44, Jody Garnett wrote:
>
> Niels the trouble is one of the contributors does not have a CLA on file
> with OSGeo. We need to look up this individuals name so we can stop being
> vague on this topic.
>
> @author Timothy De Bock - timothy.debock.git...@gmail.com
>
> So if you want you can update the headers to say (based on Timothy's
> linked in profile):
>
>    - (c) OSGeo and others
>
>
>    - (c) OSGeo and Geo Solutions; or
>    - (c) OSGeo and  Department of RWO; or
>    - (c) OSGeo and  Department of DOV
>
>
> Thank you for your patience on this topic; I want to be clear as others
> trying to figure this out the future can learn from this common example.
>
> So two options:
> a) the code was written by you (does not seem correct), and you have
> signed an OSGeo CLA (true), we bring it is as an extension like normal
> b) the code was written by you and Timothy (or his employer, or on behalf
> of a customer), we update the header to say "(c) OSGeo and others" and
> include a LICENSE.md and NOTICE.md file in the extension folder
>
> Aside I think you intended to link to
> https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/GSIP-212 and
> https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/GSIP-211
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On May 10, 2022 at 11:56:28 AM, Niels Charlier <ni...@scitus.be> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 10/05/2022 11:24, Andrea Aime wrote:
>>
>> "found code" is for code that is license compatible, but for which we
>> have no CLA on record, meaning we cannot mix it with other code that might
>> be donated back to GeoTools or otherwise relicensed at a later stage. So
>> the module needs to be labelled and isolated.
>>
>> Read carefully the "motivation" for the GSIP, and the proposal section as
>> well: https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/GSIP-186#motivation
>>
>> So how would I in this particular case deal with these stipulations:
>>
>> - "The licence is compatible with the GeoServer licence, and clearly
>> identified both in the source code, in the documentation of the module, and
>> in the module release zip package":
>>
>> So can this just be geoserver license? There is no other license involved.
>>
>> - The headers from the original files are maintained, and not updated to
>> indicate (c) OSGeo Foundation.
>>
>> But the headers already indicate this... Because the code was explicitly
>> allowed to be donated to geoserver, I added the geoserver headers. There
>> was never any other release of the code than this one.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Niels
>>
>

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