Thanks for your help in this matter Adrian, I hope to hear back from Chris Holmes (and Frank?) as the matter progresses. Cheers, Jody > 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 >
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