Feedback from gt2 on contributors agreement.

[Chris Holmes]

So I sent out an email to geotools about the contributors agreement 
(we're electing the official rep on monday, but I wanted to get feedback 
on this sooner rather than later).

One question just looks like a good one for the FAQ:
Does this mean that before I can accept and commit a patch submitted to 
me by a non-committer, they must submit a signed copy of the agreement 
to the foundation? Or would it fall under the copy of the agreement that 
I will sign?


And the other is likely a bit more involved:
'Three words:
Public domain contributions.

Failure to accept them excludes all interaction with the US Federal
Government.'

Basically all federal employees _must_ release their work under public 
domain.  This is then obvioiusly able to be re-assigned, but if a 
contributor is working for the US government, then they can't release 
their work like directly to the foundation to be licensed under a more 
restrictive license.  In GeoTools I think we just let Bryce add a public 
domain license.  But it'd be great if we could get the real legal answer 
as to how to handle contributions from US gov employees.

best regards,

Chris

-- 
Chris Holmes
The Open Planning Project
thoughts at: http://cholmes.wordpress.com
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