<div><span style="color: rgb(160, 160, 168); ">On Wednesday, 10 October 2012 at 7:48 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:</span></div>
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<div>The key element I'm looking for is a documented process, which is
part of the project's supporting web pages, describing how the
project will ensure future contributions to the code base will
follow license guidelines.<br></div></div></div></span></blockquote><div>Agreed</div><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;"><span><div><div><div>The link to the geotools project you reference below does this by
requiring new developers to sign a code contribution agreement
before committing.<br></div></div></div></span></blockquote><div>Alas that is only step 1…an important step I admit.</div><div><br></div><div>The second step (for GeoTools) is to capture when new code is subjected to a review prior to being included in the library.</div><div>- http://docs.geotools.org/latest/developer/procedures/supported.html</div><div>(This covers several things, including IP check, and importantly a documentation requirement)</div><div><br></div><div>Jody Garnett</div>