So I had a nice chat with Frank today to review where we got stuck ... here is my summary:
1. The incubation process asked us for many things, the one we are stuck on is getting our IP situation in order. 2. To that end *we* are asking the OSGeo foundation for help : -) Namely can they please hold the (c) for us. 3. They have produced a "contribution" letter for us (that looks similar to the apache one); if we sign it they will hold (c) for us... This is however where we got stuck, the letter they asked to sign was all about *you* (ie the contributors on geotools-devel) and what assurances you would provide the foundation about your code. A perfectly reasonable question is what assurances we get in trade? At the time we came up with the following: - make the code available using an open source license - according to the wishes of the GeoTools PMC The question is do we need these assurances in the legal document (making it a two way agreement)? Contributor agreements are normally a "one way declaration by the assignor that they are assigning their copyright to another party". We may simply be content with the or the OSGeo charter and bylaws? Questions: - are we content with a "one way declaration" in combination with the OSgeo bylaws about OSI license? Do we need them to add a section about PSC rights over their own projects? - should we push for a "two way declaration" (I have *no* confidence when such will be ready) Cheers, Jody ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
