What is the impact on existing contributors? Will we need to submit new
agreements?
This new agreement also appears to introduce a maintenance overhead in
that corporate entities seem to have to designate authorised employees
who are able to contribute. In my organisation, the exercise of this
On Monday, 4 February 2013 at 9:16 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
What is the impact on existing contributors? Will we need to submit new
agreements?
I made some notes / assumptions in the proposal (check the tasks section).
This new agreement also appears to introduce a maintenance
GeoTools / GeoServer Meeting 2013-02-04
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Participants
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Andrea Aime
Ben Caradoc-Davies
Jukka Rahkonen
Topics
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- GeoTools Contributor Agreement
- 2.3-RC1 - bug fixing and volunteers
- Meeting attendance going down :-)
- Good for
I am sure this has been covered but the proposal states that the current
agreement is unsuitable for use but doesn't state why. For ignorant folks
like me who haven't been following the developments on this one it would be
nice to have a few bullet points as to what the issues are.
On Mon, Feb
GeoTools Contributor Agreement
Ben has questions on the gt2 mailing list
Ben checking with his management
Check with Google if Apache contributor agreement works
Compare with Eclipse?
Other possible candidates? (just for completeness
That is just it Justin, we do not know (and are not going to get any further
detail). My assumption is that our agreement would require thought/review as it
is not on a whitelist of approved documents.
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Jody Garnett
On Tuesday, 5 February 2013 at 3:01 AM, Justin Deoliveira wrote:
For
I added these in a new discussion section.
On 04/02/13 19:03, Jody Garnett wrote:
Can you make a note of these two questions on the proposal page.
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Ben Caradoc-Davies ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au
Software Engineer
CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering
Australian Resources Research
Thanks Ben, for reference I have been going through the eclipse stuff and …
a) It also demands employers sign for each representative they have in the mix
b) It is very clear (when you sign up) that you can reference an employer, or
the organisations you are doing the work for as a contractor
That is interesting, Jody. I am not opposed to formalising the role of
representatives, just observing that we have not done so thus far. It
might well be a good idea.
Perhaps we can broaden the language to representative (but this has
legal connotations), or even just person, together with
