[Incubator] Feedback from gt2 on contributors agreement.

[Arnulf Christl]

Chris Holmes wrote:
> 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

Did you ever get an answer to this one?

Arnulf.