, 14 February 2010 5:44 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Software Copyright ownership
Cleaning up an older thread...
From what I gather from the lists there seems to be no broad
opinion in
favor of making projects move their copyright under the hood
of OSGeo
On 14 February 2010 22:44, Brian Russo br...@beruna.org wrote:
Can you give an example of some osgeo software that is a concern for
US export controls?
Well this topic is under discussion on the board (AFAIK) but, the wiki
page says:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/US_Export_Restrictions
All of
EAR is the Export Administration Regulations, maintained by the Bureau
of Industry Security within the US Department of Commerce.
Well I'm no lawyer so I cannot give legal advice nor confirm on this
matter. I do know that 740.13(e)(6) says that posting encryption
source code and object code
Arnulf Christl (aka Seven) wrote:
Cleaning up an older thread...
From what I gather from the lists there seems to be no broad opinion in
favor of making projects move their copyright under the hood of OSGeo.
With the recent discussion of potential export restriction enforcement
by
Can you give an example of some osgeo software that is a concern for
US export controls?
I'm having trouble thinking of any, since encryption isn't really a
big factor in most GIS software. Even if it is a component of the
software, as long as those encryption components reside outside of it
in
, GNU-GPL, BSD etc
Ravi Kumar
--- On Sun, 14/2/10, Arnulf Christl (aka Seven) se...@arnulf.us wrote:
From: Arnulf Christl (aka Seven) se...@arnulf.us
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Software Copyright ownership
To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Date: Sunday, 14 February, 2010, 12:14
Ravi wrote:
While discussing this with Free Software Foundation of India, this topic
came up, and I could not explain them the position of software under
incubation by OSGeo. May I have a pointer or thread where the status of
software under incubation is dealt, indicating,
1. Copy-Left
2.
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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Luis W. Sevilla
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 10:40 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Software Copyright ownership
Hi,
one thing must be taken in account
(Sorry if duplicated. it doesn't seem to be arrived first time)
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
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
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.
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
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. That is
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
:40 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Software Copyright ownership
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
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 be able
to do such a
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 03:58:01PM -0800, 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
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