Martin, (talking as a non-board member),
I'd be interested to hear who voted from the Geotools PSC, and their
reasons for voting as they did.
Are you able to point at the IRC logs, or email conversation?
Alternatively invite the people with concerns to air their opinions.
I think this question is likely to become much bigger than just a
geotools relicense, as with the recent interest of Eclipse's location
arm, LocationTech, there will be other projects facing a similar decision.
On 27/07/2012 8:10 AM, Martin Desruisseaux wrote:
Board
As suggested, we posted our request on the GeoTools mailing list
(http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29572383). The
GeoTools PMC had a meeting Monday, which resulted in 2 "inclined yes"
votes, 2 "inclined no" votes and one proposal to re-license GeoTools
too. We do not know yet the final GeoTools PMC decision, neither we
saw any reply to our request from the OSGeo board. Consequently I
would like to recall a few points, and make one proposal (note: my
willing is not to create contentious, but to insist on open source
spirit in a context where two projects are facing strategic steps):
1. We granted copyright to OSGeo, not to GeoTools.
2. When we granted copyright, we understood that OSGeo would have the
duty to behave according its charter, which is not to protect the
economical interests of some members or to favour one particular
project at the expense of an other project.
3. We were willing to trim every code not written by ourselves (while
of course we prefer not having to - see proposal below).
4. GeoTools contains thousands of lines of code written by ourselves
- when we left, we were the authors of 40% of GeoTools 2.6 code base.
5. If OSGeo requires GeoTools permission for re-licensing our code,
then conversely we assume that GeoTools needs our agreement for
re-licensing our above-cited work.
Considering that some peoples considered to re-license GeoTools as
part of their plan to join LocationTech (Eclipse), we would like to
reach an agreement around the following proposal: OSGeo allows
re-licensing of the full Geotoolkit.org code base to Apache 2,
including the work derived from other contributors in GeoTools 2.6 (as
of 2008, it was 5% of lines of code in the "core" modules and an
undetermined percentage in the "pending" modules - we can compute this
number if it is considered necessary for reaching an agreement). In
return, we give our agreement for re-licensing any work we committed
on the GeoTools SVN (both OSGeo and SourceForge), at any time in the
history under any license that the GeoTools PMC wishes. From an
"amount of lines of code" point of view, I don't think that GeoTools
would be deserved by such deal.
Martin
Le 20/07/12 23:37, Cameron Shorter a écrit :
Martin, board,
(talking as a non-board member)
I recommend that the course of action should be:
1. Note that OSGeo's commitment is to support projects, and support
Open Source use for projects.
2. Note that there are 2 projects with a vested interest in this
decision, GeoTools and Geotoolkit.
3. Note that the board would in principle be in a position to support
Geotoolkit's request, as it is a request to use an Open Source
licence (which part of OSGeo's charter)
4. However, before making a decision, the board, and/or Martin,
should approach the GeoTools community, and ask for comment, in
particular ask the GeoTools community if there are any grounds for
objection which might revolve around how GeoTools might be adversely
effected by such a license change.
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