[Board] Contracting Agreement

[Gary Lang]

Mine was not from Autodesk, but from a 10 person consultancy, BTW...

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----- Original Message -----
From: Dave McIlhagga (External)
To: Gary Lang
Cc: Frank Warmerdam (External); board at lists.osgeo.org <board at lists.osgeo.org>
Sent: Sun Jan 14 08:01:15 2007
Subject: Re: [Board] Contracting Agreement

I'll check if we have a boiler plate we can share. Given our company 
size, we would probably provide a degree of legalese closer to OSGeo's 
needs than Autodesk. :)

Although a U.S. example would probably be better since we are a Delaware 
Corporation.

Dave


Gary Lang wrote:
> Let me dig into my archives. The ones I've used recently come from a 
> large corporation that are more, well, *elaborate* than we probably need 
> for OSGeo ;-) Dig into yours and we can compare notes.
> 
> I had one developed for my consultancy years ago that was designed to be 
> acceptable to large (10,000+) and small (1) firms alike, to avoid back 
> and forth with legal departments which of course would cost me too much 
> money. Almost every large company signed it after reviewing it, as is. 
> And of course, the small ones did right away.
> 
> Gary
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Frank Warmerdam (External)
> Sent:   Sat 1/13/2007 3:00 PM
> To:     Gary Lang
> Cc:     board at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject:        Re: [Board] Contracting Agreement
> 
> Gary Lang wrote:
>  > Frank,
>  >
>  > We're a corporation with a legal structure that makes the board liable
>  > for agreements. So a contract is required. Let's get one done and
>  > establish a process for doing this quickly.
> 
> Gary,
> 
> OK.  So how do we proceed on this?  Will you arrange a template I can
> use?  Or should I try to work one up from past contracts I've been party
> to?
> 
> Best regards,
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