[OSGeo-Discuss] Incubation Committee / Contributor Agreements

[Mark Lucas]

Frank,

I'll be the POC for the OSSIM incubator interfaces.

Mark

On Feb 27, 2006, at 2:52 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Today the Board initiated an Incubator Committee.  The basic role  
> of the
> incubator is to do various sorts of review of projects as they join  
> the
> foundation.  This includes IP review (is all the code cleanly under an
> OS license?), arranging setup or approval of a project steering  
> committee
> with appropriate governance, and ensuring that committers sign  
> appropriate
> contributor agreements.
>
> Some information on the Incubation Committee can be found at:
>
>   http://incubator.osgeo.org/
>
> At the preceeding board meeting it was decided that all founding  
> projects
> would go through the incubation process, not just new projects  
> added in the
> future.  To that end we (the incubation committee) need one official
> representative on the incubation committee from each of the seven  
> founding
> projects.  I believe that we already have MapGuide Open Source (Bob  
> Bray),
> GDAL/OGR (Frank Warmerdam), and GeoServer (Chris Holmes)  
> represented.  Other
> projects should select a representative for the incubation  
> committee.  Please
> contact me with the selected person.
>
> One of the first items of discussion for incubation is the Committer
> Agreements.  These are legal documents that anyone with CVS/SVN commit
> access must sign.  Basically they provide the foundation the right to
> redistribute the provided code, and to defend the code in case of  
> litigation.
> But it does require the committer and possibly their employer to  
> agree that
> they have the right to provide code they are committing to the  
> project.
>
> The board has reviewed a proposed committer agreement based loosely on
> the Apache committer agreement.  Now we are looking for broader  
> feedback on
> it the agreements.  Of most interest is feedback from significant code
> contributors.   The draft agreements are available at:
>
>   http://www.fossgis.de/osgeo/index.php/Contributor_Agreement
>
> Feedback may be to this mailing list, or to the incubation  
> committee via
> project representatives there.
>
> Best regards,
> -- 
> --------------------------------------- 
> +--------------------------------------
> I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam,  
> warmerdam at pobox.com
> light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
> and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Programmer for  
> Rent
>
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