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Thanks for you input everyone.
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<div class="">Even, thanks for going through all of the source files! I had hoped to save some work</div>
<div class="">by crowdsourcing this, but never in a million years had I expected it to be done by</div>
<div class="">the time I got up the morning after. Very impressive. As far as I can tell there’s only</div>
<div class="">a minor issues to deal with. </div>
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<div class="">We have a bunch of files without a license header present. The copyright holder</div>
<div class="">is inferred from the git log. Should we add headers to those files? Also, in many</div>
<div class="">files substantial work has been done by several developers, even though only</div>
<div class="">one is stated as the copyright holder. I assume because the developer has</div>
<div class="">forgotten to add their name in the header. We can also infer those from git, but</div>
<div class="">is that something that we ought to do?</div>
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<div class="">Concerning the CLA, I take your responses as enough evidence that we do</div>
<div class="">not need one of those for the PROJ project :-) I have added the following</div>
<div class="">statement to the Provenance Review document:</div>
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<div class="">"The project has opted to not ask committers to sign a contribution agreement</div>
<div class="">because 1) the MIT license is permissive which eliminates the desire to re-license</div>
<div class="">the software, 2) it's an added layer of complexity to the project and 3) some</div>
<div class="">developers has expressed that they will not sign such an agreement.”</div>
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<div class="">On 10 Sep 2019, at 05:58, Kurt Schwehr <<a href="mailto:schwehr@gmail.com" class="">schwehr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">Thank you all for the work on the incubation!
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<div class="">Yet another vote for avoiding a CLA.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 2:26 PM Even Rouault <<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com" class="">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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On lundi 9 septembre 2019 21:20:36 CEST Even Rouault wrote:<br class="">
> > For other files, "git log" on them and finding the original committer<br class="">
> > should be good enough.<br class="">
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> "git log --follow" to be more exact due to renaming/moving around.<br class="">
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OK, I did the exercice of completing Kristian's initiated source file listing<br class="">
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bdu73lw8I1iFX4cb7CIUF6yqWGDTcZKBfW0cUsEjCXk/edit#gid=0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bdu73lw8I1iFX4cb7CIUF6yqWGDTcZKBfW0cUsEjCXk/edit#gid=0</a><br class="">
Would be worth being double checked of course.<br class="">
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I've followed an "optimistic" principle, that is to say that we don't have issues<br class="">
unless strong suspicion of the contrary: PROJ has always been released with<br class="">
Copyright (c) 2000, Frank Warmerdam as the general license, so I think it is the<br class="">
reasonable to consider this as the base to use for contributions<br class="">
unless they state explicitly something else.<br class="">
The general rules I followed in the case there's no explicit header with copyright & license are:<br class="">
- files coming from initial commit by Frank in 1999 and present in PROJ 4.3 are copyright Frank<br class="">
- files without explicit header and coming from SVN or git era are copyright their author<br class="">
when it can be recovered from the commit message, or otherwise the committer (Frank most of the times)<br class="">
I've indicated those 2 situations in the remarks column.<br class="">
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There are a few lines underlined in yellow that might require follow up actions.<br class="">
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