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Re: [udig-devel] udig.eu domain
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We have been making them (c) Refractions; but yes I agree a code contribution agreement was not signed.
Jody
On 30/09/2010, at 4:15 AM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 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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