just an idea
any idea for OSGeo membership like eclipse did?
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The other issue with assigning code copyrights to a US-based organisation is a
simple one. The US has the strongest software patent machine and the most
supportive courts (if you pick your state carefully ;) ).
As FOSSGIS applications bite ever harder into the profits of the dominant
player(s),
Dear all,
I would like to thank you very much for your answers and ideas to the email
I sent asking about the FOSS4G Business models.
As promised in the, I have produced a brief report about what was discussed
during the conversation on the topic.
The report is available in the following link:
One example of the restrictions Luis is talking about is the prohibition
against distributing certain cryptographic software outside of the US:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography
Don't know that OSGeo would bump into that, but it is one example of a
US specific restriction on org
Hi,
one thing must be taken in account, IMHO. If I'm not wrong OSGeo is
an USA foundation (is registered in the States, and must follow his
laws, of course. As USA maintains a commercial embargo to Cuba [1], it
seems there are a lot of things in technology fields restricted to
American comp
Oops. One more bit about this.
On Dec 14, 2009, at 1:06 PM, Allan Doyle wrote:
>
> On Dec 13, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> My private opinion on this issue is pretty clear: Move your Copyright to
>>> OSGeo - all of it including trademarks, logos and designs. T
On Dec 13, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
[...]
>> My private opinion on this issue is pretty clear: Move your Copyright to
>> OSGeo - all of it including trademarks, logos and designs. That is what
>> OSGeo is there for. Get it out of corporate reach, it is none of their
>>
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
I am also concerned
that some developers would be concerned about OSGeo having the right to
relicense their software - for instance, possibly moving code from
LGPL/GPL
to more permissive open source license - contrary to their wishes when
they
contributed the code.
The
Arnulf Christl wrote:
What do folks think about software Copyright ownership? OSGeo could
suggest that project steering committees move the Copyright of their
software under the hood of OSGeo as GeoTools and others already did. In
some cases the respective project steering committees might not
