[OSGeo-Board] Contributor agreements

Chris Holmes cholmes at openplans.org
Thu Mar 23 09:18:37 PST 2006



Dave McIlhagga wrote:
> Sorry for the extra email volume folks -- I'm just kicking myself for 
> flipping out emails at 5AM with only half a brain turned on.
> 
> Frank picked up on something I wrote previously, and I just wanted to 
> re-phrase because it didn't come out the way I intended:
> 
> 
> Dave McIlhagga wrote:
> 
>> ...  DM Solutions is
>> considering whether we should continue contributing to projects that 
>> are not covered by a CLA -- clearly, it would be very frustrating to 
>> make this choice on a 'non-technical' issue.
> 
> 
> What I intended by this was that we would be much more favourable to 
> contributing to projects where greater IP protection was assurred -- I 
> certainly didn't mean to draw a line in the sand.
> 
> 
> I guess I was a bit over-anxious to get back involved! The 
> clarifications that have followed have helped a great deal to ease my 
> initial concerns.
Great to have you back, and I think these clarifications have been 
helpful to all of us, at least they certainly have been for me, as there 
hasn't been a good summary of the current state of things in a bit.  And 
this is easily the most important issue we have going at the moment.

Chris



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Chris Holmes
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