Hey All, I'm punting on the effort to create a Copyright Assignment Proposal document so if anyone cares to take over you are welcome.
The current status seems to be: 1) A number of geotools contributors are interested to assign their copyright to OSGeo. They plan to persuade the general community to join them so as to get a copy of essentially all the Geotools code base under the copyright of OSGeo. This would enable OSGeo to represent the interests of the project legally and to re-license the code as needed. 2) OSGeo has a document: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Project_Copyright_Assignment 3) I've submitted a counter proposal to an earlier version of that text circumventing the issues that concern me. Frank Warmerdam is currently raising his concerns to my text (presumably on behalf of OSGeo). This email is to let everyone know that I've spend as much work on this effort as I feel comfortable expending so I plan to take a several month break from this work. The future path is unclear. Somehow a text which will entice geotools contributors to sign must emerge but I'm not sure how we will obtain such a text. I suspect that the only efficient process will require a collaboration between any interested contributors, a representative of OSGeo with the power to decide on behalf of the foundation, and a lawyer who understands the legal landscape. cheers, adrian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
