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<div>Hi Jody,</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Sunday, February 3, 2013 1:53 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>jpluser <<a href="mailto:chris.a.mattmann@jpl.nasa.gov">chris.a.mattmann@jpl.nasa.gov</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>"<a href="mailto:board@lists.osgeo.org">board@lists.osgeo.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:board@lists.osgeo.org">board@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Board] osgeo code contribution agreement<br>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(160, 160, 168); ">On Sunday, 3 February 2013 at 1:40 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote:</span></div>
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<div>Hey Guys,</div>
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<div>If you guys are simply reusing the Apache agreement, why not simply suggest that OSGeo establish a formal collaboration with the ASF? Or, if that's too broad, fine, but something work thinking about at least at the project level (aka GeoTools?)</div>
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<div>The board is welcome to talk to ASF at any point (indeed there was some communication when OSGeo was founded).</div>
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<div>Ah, OK, is there a record of that somewhere, just out of curiosity would love to see.</div>
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<div>As for the adaptation of the contribution agreement, do you have any feedback? Is it the kind of thing that would be acceptable to your legal department?</div>
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<div>Great question — easiest way to check would be to bring it up at <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL">
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL</a> and get guidance from the Apache legal committee. </div>
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<div>Reading the proposal I didn't see mention of LGPL anywhere in the contributor agreement. Are you suggesting that the contributions of each individual or corporation be licensed to OSGeo under LGPL? If so, I think that would need to be reified somewhere
in the ICLA or CCLA. That said, I think it would then run afoul of the Copyright Grants and Patent Grants, since those pretty much defeat the reciprocity of the LGPL as licensed from individual/corporation to the Foundation.</div>
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<div>Anyhoo, my 2c. HTH.</div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
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<div>Chris</div>
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