[Board] government cla progress

[Jachym Cepicky]

ok for me

st 2. 8. 2017 v 2:09 odesílatel Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
napsal:

> one of the action items from paris was to work on the government cla (for
> governments that are not in position to claim copyright as their work is
> classified as public domain).
>
> This is an interesting legal question for open source as copyright is a
> tool we use to enforce our open source licenses (without copyright some of
> our licenses are toothless).
>
> The document government_contributor.docx
> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/l9tc8gs477tfnpj/government_contributor.docx?dl=0>
> in our dropbox folder. The document was produced in part by a government
> department wishing to contribute to GeoTools.
>
>    - It is the same apache contributor license we are used to with the
>    words "if applicable" in front of paragraphs where they are unable to
>    assert copyright.  The key advantage it gives us is an assurance that their
>    employees (or contractors) are acting on behalf of the organization - and
>    are donating the work to an open source project with the intention of it
>    being distributed with an open source license.
>    - The word "Organization" has replaced "Corporation"
>
> If there are any questions it would be great to bring them up now, so we
> can answer (with our limited knowledge) or take to legal. Michael Smith is
> setting up for legal review.
> --
> Jody Garnett
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