<div dir="ltr">No it is not a deal breaker, but it is worth consideration as an open source best-practice. It can be a quick two lines reminding people that the project is MIT licensed and providing a URL rather than the full license.<div><br></div><div>The point of asking projects to check their headers is something (anything) easier then asking for a full providence review. If you find that easier (with a relatively small codebase) then checking headers it may be a good alternative? The idea was that checking headers could be done quickly with a sed script rather than asking for a providence review like we do in incubation.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_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></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 at 02:48, Jo Cook <<a href="mailto:jocook@astuntechnology.com">jocook@astuntechnology.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks Jody,<div><br></div><div>We've updated the contributors page to include something on licensing. We're not convinced about the need for headers with the MIT license, but we'll have some internal discussions about this. Is it a deal-breaker for getting the project accepted as a community project?</div><div><br></div><div>Jo</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 1:12 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">No need to take on a CLA unless you want to, there are advantages of course. But some indication on the contributing page that the work is being contributed will be distributed as MIT maybe smart (obvious but smart). <br><br>We had extensive discussion with Ben and OSGeo legal on headers. Apparently they do not serve a legal purpose, but are still wise (once again to show license if someone finds the code by web search and wants to cut and paste). <br><div class="m_-3602495829139335588HOEnZb"><div class="m_-3602495829139335588h5"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 1:34 AM María Arias de Reyna <<a href="mailto:delawen@gmail.com" target="_blank">delawen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi, <br><br></div>This is good news, more projects being added to OSGeo :)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 10:29 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>Many thanks for your response. </div><div><br></div><div>We've taken on board the comment about the contributors license, and gone for the approach that openlayers uses, this is now reflected at <a href="https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#contributor-license-agreement" target="_blank">https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#contributor-license-agreement</a></div><div><br></div><div>Regarding license headers- since it's licensed under MIT, then as far as we can tell there isn't a legal requirement to include them, however if from an OSGeo perspective you would like us to, then we can do that.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again,</div><div><br></div><div>Jo</div></div><div class="m_-3602495829139335588m_-7386131528617082272m_7106382245139562696HOEnZb"><div class="m_-3602495829139335588m_-7386131528617082272m_7106382245139562696h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 5:21 AM, 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">In terms of adding it to the website:<div><br></div><div>1. geospatial</div><div><br></div><div>check :)</div><div><br></div><div>2. open source</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader/blob/master/LICENSE.txt" target="_blank">https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader/blob/master/LICENSE.txt</a></div><div>- check</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader/blob/master/python/loader.py" target="_blank">https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader/blob/master/python/loader.py</a></div><div>- no header but perhaps that is not the python way?</div><div><br></div><div>3. participatory</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md" target="_blank">https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md</a><br></div><div>- check</div><div>- double check - odd it does not mention to contributors that they are releasing their contribution as open source?</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed" target="_blank">https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed</a></div><div>- can see a stream of pull requests</div><div><br></div><div>4. checking headers (see table <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>Not sure what to do on this one, if the python projects are not used to having headers it seems silly to ask. The goal of the table above was to split up the work of "providence review" and focus on checking headers (which can be done with sed or similar) just as a sanity check that all the source code is in fact open source.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-3602495829139335588m_-7386131528617082272m_7106382245139562696m_-7826007716995565621m_965258276965828739gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_-3602495829139335588m_-7386131528617082272m_7106382245139562696m_-7826007716995565621h5"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 at 02:48, Jo Cook <<a href="mailto:jocook@astuntechnology.com" target="_blank">jocook@astuntechnology.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_-3602495829139335588m_-7386131528617082272m_7106382245139562696m_-7826007716995565621h5"><div dir="ltr">Hi Incubation List,<div><br></div><div>I'd like to propose Loader (<a href="https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader" target="_blank">https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader</a>) as an OSGeo Community Project. </div><div><br></div><div>Switching hats from being an Incubation Committee Member- Loader was developed by my colleague at Astun Technology, Matt Walker, as a high-performance python wrapper around ogr2ogr, for primarily loading large quantities of Ordnance Survey Mastermap data into postgreSQL (or other formats). It has since been expanded to cover the loading of other Ordnance Survey data sources, the most recent work being around loading data for routing.</div><div><br></div><div>Loader is licensed under an MIT license, accepts contributions, and has a relatively active community- it's used by a lot of organisations for bulk loading data, including the Ordnance Survey themselves. I think it meets the requirements for a Community Project already but I'm happy to be corrected. </div><div><br></div><div>In the longer term we'd like to put it forward for full Incubation, but one step at a time!</div><div><br></div><div>If there's any conflict of interest with me being a member of the Incubation Committee and with a vested interest in Loader then please let me know.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Jo</div><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-3602495829139335588m_-7386131528617082272m_7106382245139562696m_-7826007716995565621m_965258276965828739m_3923655505537369970gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><b></b><b>Jo Cook</b><br>
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