[Board] Asking permission for re-licensing from LGPL to Apache

[Jody Garnett]

For the code in question we are responsible as a subcommittee to get
things done. Any significant change beyond day to day operation we
send to the board for approval ( like any other committee ).

I am sorry I was not able to make Monday's meeting but we did get
discussion going.

--
Jody Garnett

On 28/07/2012, at 2:46 AM, Martin Desruisseaux
<martin.desruisseaux at geomatys.fr> wrote:

> Jody
>
> My previous email was a question to the OSGeo board about the
> interpretation of a particular paragraph of the copyright agreement, as
> pointed by Frank. We understand that GeoTools has its own schedule,
> consequently we didn't asked any decision about the 5% of "core" code
> that we didn't wrote. Please take all the time you need for this
> particular topic.
>
> We are trying to get a formal OSGeo statement about the contributors
> ability to re-license their own code, with all other contributions
> removed. That the GeoTools PMC wants to check technical facts (code
> history or the like) is a valuable task, but I don't see it as a
> necessary task for the above-cited general question.
>
> Our projects also have their own fishes to fry. In order to allow anyone
> to go forward, please let try to get a formal position on a topic that
> shouldn't be contentious: which rights OSGeo contributors do have
> regarding their own work? I think we can let the GeoTools PMC decision
> about the rest of the code has a separated topic.
>
>    Martin
>
>
> Le 27/07/12 16:33, Jody Garnett a écrit :
>> Martin the geotools meeting did not result in a vote; or any course of
>> action.
>>
>> We have a decision making process to follow, which starts with
>> assembling enough information to know what we are talking about.
>>
>> I am afraid I was otherwise booked with the OSGeo incubation meeting
>> and could not attend the geotools meeting myself.
>>
>> OSGeo hold on to copyright for a project and the PMC run the project
>> on its behalf. We try to run the project in a responsible manner,
>> occasionally going slow with procedures and meetings etc... Please be
>> patient as we have bigger fish to fry right now with our release this
>> weekend.
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>