Hi Jody, I am not a government employee or contractor and I don't have insight into whether or how the CLA issue involving the government contractor contributor might be resolved. I think it's reasonable to assume that it is not something that will be addressed in the foreseeable future.
Is the recommendation that I remove the attribution to the government contractor contributors in the relevant commits to resolve this issue? What about the non-government contributors that I just don't get a response from regarding the CLA signing request? Is removing author attribution permissible under LGPL, and eventually GPL if/when the same process is repeated on the GeoServer side? Even if permissible it's definitely something I would like to avoid if at all possible as I think all contributors (government and non-government) should receive attribution for their work. On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:45 AM Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. 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