<div dir="ltr">Still that is the subject under discussion:<div>- confirmation that this is open source, and which license?</div><div>- are we sure it is open source?</div><div>- really? Who wrote this - and did they (or their employer) understand it was being released as open source</div><div><br></div><div>Copyright is a slightly different topic, it is a great tool for enforcing the open source license :)<br></div><div><br></div><div>For a community project we ask folks spot check their headers (which catches many of the above questions). For incubation was ask projects dig into the history a bit and confirm the providence of the code (where it came from).</div><div><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" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 7 May 2020 at 14:28, Alex Leith <<a href="mailto:alexgleith@gmail.com">alexgleith@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">>person or organisation responsible<div><br></div><div>Responsible for distribution of the file?<br><br>If that's it, I guess I need to go digging for some further examples. Because as I said earlier, we don't have a formal ODC organisation. I could check into whether Geoscience Australia could be that org, but I'm not sure that it should.</div><div><br></div><div>And I really hope you're not talking responsible for holding copyright, because that's a far more complex issue!</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 7 May 2020 at 23:21, Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">This discussion, and your projects decision on how to open source, is why we have this check list. </div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It is minimal, the part that is weak is noting the person or organization responsible. Headers with such information can help when doing a providence review (where the code came from), but git history even better :)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So back at you - what is appropriate for your project? And do you find any odd files when checking your headers? Most projects do...</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 6:53 PM Alex Leith <<a href="mailto:alexgleith@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexgleith@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks Even, that looks like a really simple solution!<div><br></div><div>Does anyone see any issues with Even's proposed approach?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 7 May 2020 at 09:22, Even Rouault <<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com" target="_blank">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">On jeudi 7 mai 2020 09:09:01 CEST Alex Leith wrote:</p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">> Hey Jody</p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">> Thanks for the advice.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">> We had a look at the Apache license documentation and it says:</p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">> >Each original source document (code and documentation, but not the LICENSE</p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">> and NOTICE files) *should* include a short license header</p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">> <a href="https://infra.apache.org/apply-license.html#new" target="_blank">https://infra.apache.org/apply-license.html#new</a></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">> Does the OSGeo Project process require the license to be in headers, or</p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">> simply encourage?</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">Not speaking on behalf of OSGeo, but I'd suggest using the the one-line variant offered by the SPDX initiative, which is adopted by the Linux Kernel project among others, and has the advantage of conveying explicit non-ambiguous licensing in a short way, and to be easily analyzed by automated tools (compliance checking). Just put the following at the beginning of files (way of commenting to be adopted with the one offered by the programming language)</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0</p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px"> </p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">See <a href="https://spdx.org/ids-how" target="_blank">https://spdx.org/ids-how</a></p>
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