You can email a PDF, and many programs let you sign a PDF. For us government often the work is often public domain, so can be picked up and contributed by an individual side stepping many of these issues.
We have some history of trying to untangle use of CLAs between NGA and OSGeo, and NGA and Eclipse Foundation. A key thing we want established is that *an employee (or contractor) has the governments permission to release the code as open source*. As a technicality the Apache CLA we use tends to have each paragraph discuss both the "permission to act" (which NGA can grant) and "copyright" (which NGA cannot grant since public domain requirement) in the same paragraph. Their legal time tried to add "As applicable" to each paragraph of the CLA, rather than to just the sentence on copyright ... If you want to pursue this with NGA management we can do so via Open Source Geospatial Foundation, they have been stuck on this for *years*. On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 7:03 PM sjudeng <sjud...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jody and Andrea, > > Just to update on this, I did reach out to ElasticGeo contributors. I > think some will be able to sign and are just slowed by the current > print/scan process to submit. Others I am still awaiting a response from. > In at least one case I don't think the CLA will be signed as the work was > done under a U.S. Government contract and thus would require Government CLA > signature, which is unlikely. > > Is there any other recourse here to get this brought under OSGeo > GeoTools/GeoServer without all secondary contributors signing the OSGeo > CLA? Since ElasticGeo is released as LGPL (GeoTools-side) and GPL > (GeoServer-side), is the inclusion of the associated source code not > similar to the inclusion of similarly licensed third-party dependency > libraries, which include contributors that haven't signed the OSGeo CLA? > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 8:18 PM sjudeng <sjud...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello again, >> >> I reached out to ElasticGeo contributors regarding CLA signing and in the >> meantime have opened a PR with the contribution to GeoTools. I'll keep an >> eye on the CI build and work through any issues that come up. >> >> https://github.com/geotools/geotools/pull/2749 >> >> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 1:41 AM Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it> >> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 3:11 AM sjudeng <sjud...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> If there is interest I'd like to try again to get ElasticGeo >>>> contributed to GeoTools/GeoServer as a community module. >>>> >>> >>> I don't remember about previous attempts... but you're welcomed to >>> donate the module indeed, it's a good move! >>> Is it the same store provided at ngageoint? >>> https://github.com/ngageoint/elasticgeo >>> Yeah, I see you as the primary contributor there. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Andrea >>> >>> == >>> >>> GeoServer Professional Services from the experts! Visit >>> http://goo.gl/it488V for more information. == Ing. Andrea Aime @geowolf >>> Technical Lead GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via di Montramito 3/A 55054 Massarosa >>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/Via+di+Montramito+3%2FA%0D%0A55054++Massarosa?entry=gmail&source=g> >>> (LU) phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 1660272 mob: +39 339 8844549 >>> http://www.geo-solutions.it http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it >>> ------------------------------------------------------- *Con >>> riferimento alla normativa sul trattamento dei dati personali (Reg. UE >>> 2016/679 - Regolamento generale sulla protezione dei dati “GDPR”), si >>> precisa che ogni circostanza inerente alla presente email (il suo >>> contenuto, gli eventuali allegati, etc.) è un dato la cui conoscenza è >>> riservata al/i solo/i destinatario/i indicati dallo scrivente. Se il >>> messaggio Le è giunto per errore, è tenuta/o a cancellarlo, ogni altra >>> operazione è illecita. Le sarei comunque grato se potesse darmene notizia. >>> This email is intended only for the person or entity to which it is >>> addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or >>> otherwise protected from disclosure. We remind that - as provided by >>> European Regulation 2016/679 “GDPR” - copying, dissemination or use of this >>> e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended >>> recipient is prohibited. If you have received this email by mistake, please >>> notify us immediately by telephone or e-mail.* >>> >>
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