<div dir="ltr">Hi Jody and list,<div><br></div><div>Having had a bit of a think about licensing, I had previously chosen GPLv3 *for my components alone* and I think I'm happy with that. As far as I can tell, I can license my modifications alone with GPLv3 regardless of what the software projects themselves are. I've had a look at how OSGeo Live works, but that doesn't help much (<a href="https://live.osgeo.org/en/copyright.html" target="_blank">https://live.osgeo.org/en/<wbr>copyright.html</a>). Is there anyone on the list who could help me out with this- basically to confirm or deny?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Jo</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Jo Cook <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jocook@astuntechnology.com" target="_blank">jocook@astuntechnology.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Jody,<div><br></div><div>That all sounds really encouraging and yes I'd be happy to go through the process with you and the team. We (Astun) potentially have another project that we'd like to submit for consideration too, and I'll be in touch separately about that one.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding autoit, no you don't need to purchase anything to use it. Having thought about this in some more detail, I think I will try to move away from that dependency and try to find an open source alternative but that will obviously take some time to work through, so it would be good if we could start working through the process of becoming a community project while that is ongoing.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll make some tweaks to the repository to make sure that the various docs are easy to find, and then maybe come back to you when that's ready. I want to think a little about whether I'm using the most appropriate license too.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Jo</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 6:12 PM, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Glad to hear from you Jo!<div><br></div><div>Although the "OSGeo community" initiative was started last year, we have not had a chance to try it out yet (perhaps due to lack of publicity). If you are patient with us we would enjoy going through this process with you, and revising our notes as we go.</div><div><br></div><div>The wiki <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects" target="_blank">OSGeo Community Projects</a> page has the following recipe:</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">If your project would like to join OSGeo the technology initiative asks:</p><ol style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">That your project is geospatial (or directly supports geospatial applications);<ul style="list-style-type:disc;margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Data & doc projects would of course need an appropriate data or documentation license</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">That your project is open source<ul style="list-style-type:disc;margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Uses an OSI approved open source license</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">That you know where your source code came from, and that care is taken when accepting external contributions</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Participatory (accepts pull-requests)</li></ol></div><div><br></div><div>Along with a few notes on how we can quickly check the LICENSE, CONTRIBUTING, README files.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><b>autoit</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Your question about <span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">autoit is tricky, it is freely distributable - so not a barrier to use. We are actually in a similar spot for the GeoTools and GeoServer projects. When they were first created Java was not open source so there were some very heated discussions with the gvSig team on if you could ever make a free software solution using Java.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">But we are an open source software foundation (not at a free software foundation) allowing GeoTools, GeoServer .. and by extension autoit.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">This question of Java still troubles us, while Java is now open source, the image processing library that was included in Java is still only free to distribute. This causes problems for the OSGeo Live and uDig projects.</span></div><div><br></div><div>I would be concerned though if people need to purchase autoit in order to work on your project? There is a slight difference between being required to purchase a tool, and optionally using a tool. For GeoTools we can "work with" the Oracle Database (if user installs the right jars they have downloaded from Oracle) or ArcSDE (if the user installs the right jars they have purchased from ESRI). However if a contributor is not in possession of these artifacts they can still work on the project as a whole.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-8168669860167524010m_-1369884601200913215gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_-8168669860167524010h5">On 22 August 2017 at 06:25, Jo Cook <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jocook@astuntechnology.com" target="_blank">jocook@astuntechnology.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_-8168669860167524010h5"><div dir="ltr">Hi Incubator List,<div><br></div><div>As you may or may not know, I have been running a small project called Portable GIS (GIS on a USB stick for Windows) for a number of years. The basic premise is to provide a no-install, no-config version of many of the common open source GIS projects on a USB stick. </div><div><br></div><div>Recently I built a website for the project (<a href="http://portablegis.xyz" target="_blank">portablegis.xyz</a>) and I'm working through the process of documenting and publishing all the configuration changes that need to be made to make projects portable (mainly batch files to be honest). This also includes the source code for building the menu and installer files. </div><div><br></div><div>This is on Gitlab at <a href="https://gitlab.com/archaeogeek/portable-gis" target="_blank">https://gitlab.com/archaeog<wbr>eek/portable-gis</a> so that I can now start accepting contributions. Note that this repository does not contain the actual source code for the projects such as QGIS, it just contains the files that need to be adjusted to make it work portably.</div><div><br></div><div>One of my colleagues has suggested that Portable GIS could be an OSGeo Community Project, so here I am, asking about it :-)</div><div><br></div><div>My main concern is that autoit, which I used for building the menu, is freeware rather than opensource (see <a href="https://www.autoitscript.com/site/" target="_blank">https://www.autoitscript.<wbr>com/site/</a> and specifically <a href="https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/license.htm" target="_blank">https://www.autoitscript.com/a<wbr>utoit3/docs/license.htm</a>). My gut feeling is that this bars Portable GIS from being truly open source, and hence not suitable for being an OSGeo Community Project. Would that be correct?</div><div><br></div><div>If this was the only bar to entry, I could certainly look at alternative options for building the menu.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Jo</div><div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-8168669860167524010m_-1369884601200913215m_-116928696693411923gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><b></b><b>Jo Cook</b><br>
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