Folks, I have finally got a clear response back from our internal legal reviewer to my request to offer refinement to the text of the GeoTools contributor agreement. He indicated that the agreement has multiple issues, and that it couldn't be easily corrected to meet our (Google's) expectations. He suggested we might want to start over with a stock agreement such as Apache's.
I'm not interested in pushing a complete rework of the contribution agreement, so at this point I am letting the matter drop and it appears that Google will not be a significant contributor to GeoTools. I'm rather bummed. If other companies come to a similar conclusion then it might be worth rethinking the agreement. If this is just a peculiarity of Google then I think you can just write us off as outliers. Best regards, Frank On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Thanks for contacting us Frank, we have not had any feedback to this >> effect previously. >> >> I am sure we can tightening up the language in the CLA, and could issue a >> new version of the document following our usual change procedure. >> >> Our project is "open" allowing you to assemble a "proposal" to change the >> wording (as outlined in the developers guide). You do not have to be a >> member of the project steering committee to make a proposal. This would also >> give your legal department something to review prior to us issuing a new >> copy of the document. In this particular case we will need to assemble a >> document, and then pass it to the OSGeo board for final approval (as OSGeo >> is the legal entity effected). > > > I agree with the idea. It's easier for us to tell you if something cooked up > by a lawyer team defines Geotools than try to give > you a definition that would suit lawyers. > Hopefully the material on the GeoTools web site and this discussion helps > clarify what we feel GeoTools is > > Cheers > Andrea > > -- > == > Our support, Your Success! Visit http://opensdi.geo-solutions.it for more > information. > == > > Ing. Andrea Aime > @geowolf > Technical Lead > > GeoSolutions S.A.S. > Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 > 55054 Massarosa (LU) > Italy > phone: +39 0584 962313 > fax: +39 0584 1660272 > mob: +39 339 8844549 > > http://www.geo-solutions.it > http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it > > ------------------------------------------------------- > -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [email protected] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Software Developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ GeoTools-Devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
