[Board] [ol3-dev] CLAs for OpenLayers

Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepicky at gmail.com
Sat Jul 26 13:56:49 PDT 2014


Hi,

generic procedure, which seems to be working nowadays for e.g.
geotools is, that the CLA is send in copy to secretary (or info) [at]
osgeo.org, and to whoever in in charge for particular project. The one
(in this case it would be you and Andreas) can check OSGeo directory
and sqlite database, once I (secretary) sends response to new
assignee, about his CLA being filed. In this case, you are still
maintaining list of OpenLayers contributors, secretary just takes care
about all arrived CLAs.

Reasoning: would be IMHO too overhead, if secretary would have to take
care on two separate lists. Keep in mind, my term is over within year
and probably someone else will have to take over the CLAs management.

For CLA itself, OSGeo is providing IMHO clearly written templates
www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/legal/licenses.html which can be IMO
used for OpenLayers as well (NOTE, they can be used for "OSGeo" as
generic project, one do not have to sign each cla for each particular
project)

Jachym

2014-07-26 0:25 GMT+02:00 OL3 Dev on behalf of Tim Schaub
<ol3-dev at googlegroups.com>:
> Typo above.  I meant that I don't think the ICLA needs to be paper.
> (I doubt the CCLA has to either, but I won't push it.)
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Tim Schaub <tim.schaub at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It would be great to have your assistance maintaining our CLA list.  A
>> few things:
>>
>>  * We currently have two CLA mailing list maintainers (Andreas and
>> me).  More is better.  I wouldn't want fewer (e.g. just OSGeo rep).
>>  * It is important to us to maintain a visible list of signed CLA, if
>> you are added as a maintainer of the CLA mailing list, it would mean
>> that you would also update the list of signed agreements [1] as they
>> come in.
>>  * While I agree it is good to have "papers" in shape, I don't agree
>> that these have to be paper for the CCLA at least (having digitally
>> signed CLAs for places like Google and Walmart, I'm pretty sure some
>> high paid lawyers agree).  Note that we still require scanned copies
>> of the CCLA.
>>
>> It is also worth mentioning that we continue to occasionally have
>> potential contributors who can't (or won't) agree to our CLA.  Some
>> individuals, some from US Govt, etc.  I assume this is due to some
>> language in the CLA left over from Metacarta times that we could
>> probably do without.  In any case, I am interested in doing things
>> that lower the barrier to entry and don't feel like doing anything
>> else that raises it.  If OSGeo can do anything to help in that regard
>> (e.g. coming up with a brain-dead simple, understandable by all CLA)
>> that would be great.
>>
>> If you send me your preferred email address (to my first and last name
>> separated by a dot at gmail.com), I'll add you to the CLA mailing list
>> and give you push access to the CLA repo.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tim
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/openlayers/cla/blob/master/signed-agreements.md
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:58 PM, OL3 Dev on behalf of Jáchym Čepický
>> <ol3-dev at googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>> (CCed to OSGeo Board),
>>>
>>> Hm, Tim, I personally think, having this papers in shape is important.
>>> I can take care on this, could you please provide me with little
>>> "howto" dig the scanned CLAs for OpenLayers out of the mailing list? I
>>> can than take this administration over, if you agree
>>>
>>> Jachym
>>>
>>> 2014-07-25 23:52 GMT+02:00 OL3 Dev on behalf of Tim Schaub
>>> <ol3-dev at googlegroups.com>:
>>>> Thanks for the offer Jachym.  We haven't done paper copies for 4 years
>>>> or so.  We allow individuals to submit a digital form and accept
>>>> scanned/signed copies at a mailing list.  When these come in, we
>>>> manually add them to the list of signed agreements here:
>>>> https://github.com/openlayers/cla/blob/master/signed-agreements.md
>>>> (this needs to be updated with a number of digital ICLA submissions).
>>>>
>>>> If it would be useful for OSGeo to have copies, I could provide access
>>>> to the mailing list archive (where all scanned/signed copies live) and
>>>> the spreadsheet that includes digital submissions.
>>>>
>>>> Tim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:11 AM, Jáchym Čepický via OL3 Dev
>>>> <ol3-dev+noreply-APn2wQfIX-8JSgVVA_3bAEsuhWEr1lYh5W-EoDYHyHRWxc72 at googlegroups.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> just asking: since I'm collecting the CLAs for nearly all OSGeo projects, do
>>>>> you want me to collect them for OpenLayers too?
>>>>>
>>>>> I usually get scanned copy of CLA or it comes per standard mail to me, I
>>>>> eventually print it, file it into binder, eventually scan it and store to
>>>>> OSGeo SVN and make record to sqlite file with contributors name and
>>>>> project(s) he would like to contribute to.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anything more, you need?
>>>>>
>>>>> Or are you ok with collecting the CLAs within OpenLayers team? Just asking.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jachym
>>>>>
>>>>> (secretary of OSGeo)
>>>>>
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