[Board] geotools to change contribution agreement

[Frank Warmerdam]

Jody,

I have added an agenda item for next weeks meeting.

  http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2013-02-26

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to ask the board to consider these two agreements in their next
> meeting and either:
> a) issue the two documents (say at osgeo.org/licenses

They are not licenses, so we clearly would not put them exactly at that url.

I personally feel that there is no particular need for the board to
publish them somewhere special.  Instead, I think the best place for
them to live is in the incubator as "suggested best practice"
contributions agreements that could be used "as is" for projects.

> b) or acknowledge the actions of the GeoTools PMC (and the project can host
> the agreements)

I will seek a motion from the board approving their use GeoTools,
though as I've said before I don't see this as strictly necessary.

Best regards,

> Sorry to pester on this one, this is one of those rare actions where
> GeoTools acting as a subcommittee would like to kick something up to the
> board.
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
> (GeoTools Project Officer)
>
> Here is proposed text for an http://osgeo.org/licenses page:
>
> Open Source License
>
> The Open Source Geospatial Foundation projects are all freely available and
> useable under an OSI-certified open source license.
>
> Contributor License
>
> Each OSGeo project has its own procedure for accepting contribution of
> documentation, ideas and code.
>
> The following contribution licenses are available to projects seeking to
> assign copyright directly to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation:
>
> Individual Contribution License Agreement
> Corporate Contribution License Agreement
>
>
>
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