Re: [udig-devel] udig.eu domain

[Paul Ramsey <pramsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would say, "don't bother with copyright transfer". You've got a mess
of mixed copyright in there anyways, regardless of what the headers
say. A big chunk of it will be Refractions (c), but then there will be
things that Jody and Jesse have added since leaving and chunks from
other outside committers, and since there has been no explicit
copyright assignment regime, the ownership is mixed.

It's not a problem, it's just something to recognize. I prefer to be
explicit about it. In PostGIS, we've known we had mixed copyrights for
a long time, so rather than pretend that headers have a legal standing
and make things (c) OSGeo or (c) PostGIS PSC, we just make them (c)
whoeverdidthework.

Remember, the headers don't have standing, they are metadata. You have
to explicitly assign your copyright (or, in Europe where that isn't
allowed, assign shared copyright) to some other entity. And the only
reason you would go to all that trouble is (IMO) if you (a) think at
some point you might want to change the license or (b) worry about a
lawsuit coming and hope that your global copyright holder will stand
in front of the other contributors and say "it is mine, deal with me".
It's also useful when dealing with organizations who want an answer to
"who owns this" that doesn't sound like a mouthful of marbles ("well,
the copyright is held by 100 different people...").

If you did want to join OSGeo, you could use them as a copyright
assignee, but see the caveats above. The main reasons to join OSGeo
are the metacommunity and reflected legitimacy, in my opinion. Also
the infrastructure :)

Best,

Paul

PS. udig.me is pretty cute.



On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Jesse Eichar
<jesse.eichar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I talked to Paul Ramsey about this and he said it was probably too much work
> to worry about.  His suggestion was not to worry about it too much.  It
> seems refractions still has a large portion of postgis copyright.
> Perhaps we can keep the copyrights with the PMC and when they leave they
> have to transfer it to another PMC member?
> Jesse
>
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:52 AM, andrea antonello
> <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Another thought is to Join osgeo and use org.osgeo.udig.
>>
>> Join osgeo == enter incubation? That is impossible right now with the
>> resources we, IMO.
>>
>> But I would be very glad if it was :)
>> This is a decision that has to be done soon, since I want to finally
>> contribute the netcdf and grass formats to udig core. No more fiddling
>> on this. :)
>>
>> Andrea
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Enjoy the weekend
>> > Jody
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 25/09/2010, at 5:08 PM, andrea antonello <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi PSC,
>> >> just for your information: as a start after the chat I had with the
>> >> barcellona uDiggers about future new packages naming, we bought the
>> >> only (decent) available udig domain: udig.eu
>> >> Currently it points to the gitorious udig site.
>> >>
>> >> Just so we can slowly go on talking about future plans. :)
>> >>
>> >> Ciao
>> >> Andrea
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