<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Oh good, that was what we were planning to do. Right now many of the (c)'s have "GeoMOOSE.org". I had originally intended on doing the formal work to create a formal organization to help structure and plan the funding for GeoMOOSE. A few versions and two kids later that never materialized. I was simply going to remove the "and GeoMOOSE.org" that permeates most of the license notifications.<br></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Jody Garnett
<jody.garnett@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Dan Little <danlittle@yahoo.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Jim Klassen <klassen.js@gmail.com>; "eadam@co.lincoln.or.us" <eadam@co.lincoln.or.us>; Bob Basques <Bob.Basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us>; "geomoose-users@lists.osgeo.org" <geomoose-users@lists.osgeo.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, March 22, 2012 4:13 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Geomoose-users] Re: Just went through the incubation committee meeting log.<br> </font> </div> <br>
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Oh Can I intervene here :-)
</div><div><br></div><div>The incubation process really does not want you to change anything if we can avoid it. Only confirm what you are already doing and how your project ticks over.</div><div><br></div><div>To repeat you holding (c) is fine. And having more than one (c) holder is also fine.</div><div>-- </div><div><div>Jody Garnett<br></div><div><br></div></div>
<div style="color: rgb(160, 160, 168);">On Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 12:25 PM, Dan Little wrote:</div>
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<span><div><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div><span>The license is MIT. I just wrote Eli a lengthy email about the (c) holder issue being me and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://GeoMOOSE.org">GeoMOOSE.org</a>.</span></div><br>I'm consulting with a few folks before proposing a solution. In the mean time, I will work to post licenses in the files in which they are missing. (Doing that now...)<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Jim Klassen <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:klassen.js@gmail.com" target="_blank"
href="mailto:klassen.js@gmail.com">klassen.js@gmail.com</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:eadam@co.lincoln.or.us" target="_blank" href="mailto:eadam@co.lincoln.or.us">eadam@co.lincoln.or.us</a> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Bob Basques <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Bob.Basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us" target="_blank" href="mailto:Bob.Basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us">Bob.Basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us</a>>; "<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:geomoose-users@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:geomoose-users@lists.osgeo.org">geomoose-users@lists.osgeo.org</a>" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:geomoose-users@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:geomoose-users@lists.osgeo.org">geomoose-users@lists.osgeo.org</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, March 21, 2012 11:46 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Geomoose-users] Re: Just went through the incubation committee meeting log.<br> </font> </div> <br>
<br>On Mar 21, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Eli Adam wrote:<br><br>>> 2) MIT based license<br>>> <br>>> You are running your own license here<br>>> (http://geomoose.org/info/license.html) as such do you need it recognised by<br>>> OSI? Or is MIT based enough?<br>>> <br>>> If you want we can ask the incubation committee - or you can just decide and<br>>> tell us how it is :-)<br>> <br>> Perhaps MIT 'based' is a misnomer. A diff of<br>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://geomoose.org/info/license.html">http://geomoose.org/info/license.html</a> and<br>> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php produces:<br>> <br>> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@<br>> -Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders><br>> +Copyright (c) 2009-2010, Dan “Ducky” Little & <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://GeoMOOSE.org">GeoMOOSE.org</a><br>> <br>> Permission is hereby
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person obtaining<br>> a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the<br>> "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including<br>> without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,<br>> distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to<br>> permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to<br>> the following conditions:<br>> <br>> This makes it look like it *is* MIT rather than MIT *based*.<br>> <br><br>Dan and/or Bob correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC the *based* part is a historical artifact from the 1.x series that had a City of St. Paul copyright which was similar to MIT. We had wanted MIT (to match MapServer) but the city lawyers felt they needed to change something. (It was a bit of a battle to convince them that creating an entirely new open source license would essentially defeat adoption and so MIT based was a
compromise.) Note: The 2.x series was written from scratch (primarily by Duck) after he left the city so this isn't an issue for 2.x.<br><br>>> <br>>> 3) Um where is the source code? There is no link from your home page or<br>>> download page - do you make a download of the source available for each<br>>> release? Ah I found it by trial and error ...<br>> <br>> Has been updated in trunk for a while. Website is a snapshot<br>> currently, will switch to auto-generation soon.<br>> <br>> Thanks for the help, I think that Code Provenience is one of those<br>> tasks that sounds worse than it is (and thus is avoided).<br>> <br>> Eli<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Geomoose-users mailing list<br>> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Geomoose-users@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:Geomoose-users@lists.osgeo.org">Geomoose-users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>>
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