[geomoose-psc] Last piece of Incubation requirements.

[James Klassen]

If it is a contribution from the public domain then it is not copyright the
original author.  I also don't see how that contribution is copyrightable
period as that would effectively be taking it out of the pubic domain for
anyone else's use.  Any IP law experts that can clarify?
 On Feb 14, 2013 8:25 AM, "Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)" <
bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:

>  Jim,****
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> It’s intended as a TEMPLATE for the the user to use for commenting their
> contributed code.  They replace the tokens, YourName, and/or
> YourCompanyName with real names and add the “ (public domain)” piece is
> added on the end.****
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> See here for info about the “Public Domain” part :****
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> http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/floss-license-slide.html****
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> Specifically, the second paragraph after first graphic.****
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> It was simply to demonstrate that there are options in how the comments
> can appear in the code.  It’s not clear from that reference whether it help
> or hurts.  I can remove that chunk if preferred.****
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> Bobb****
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> *From:* James Klassen [mailto:klassen.js at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2013 11:24 PM
> *To:* Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
> *Cc:* geomoose-psc at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [geomoose-psc] Last piece of Incubation requirements.****
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> The following makes no sense to me at all.****
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> *Copyright (c) 2013, **<YourName> (<YourCompanyName>) (public domain)*****
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> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) <
> bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:****
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> All,****
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>  ****
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> With Jody and Eli’s help on assembly, here is what we have for the last
> piece of the incubation puzzle to address.  What follows are a couple of
> documenting changes to the GeoMoose site that will describe more fully how
> code is contributed to the GeoMoose project.  While I believe these changes
> could go directly into the two pages referenced.  The second one could also
> be made into separately linked example page as well.****
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> I tried to leave the door open to keeping it simple and still flexible.***
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> For your review.  There are two pages edits described below.  Please vote
> yay/nay, and I’ll start a trac item once it’s passed.****
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> On this page: http://www.geomoose.org/developer/contribute.html****
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> Add a point number 6.), to read:****
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> 6. Code contributed to the GeoMoose Project (Core codebase) will be
> distributed under the GeoMoose License<http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html?highlight=license>.
> Other contributed code should be documented as per the developer standards<http://www.geomoose.org/developer/standards.html>
> .****
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> And****
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> On this page: http://www.geomoose.org/developer/standards.html****
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> Add a point number 7.), to read:****
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> 7. Any contributed code should contain a code source comment block in each
> file header indicating the author (that is you and your employer if you are
> working on company time), date of contribution and any conflicting
> licensing restrictions that are not already covered by the GeoMoose
> License <http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html?highlight=license>.
> All unusual situations need to be discussed and/or documented on the
> project mail list and/or in the project TRAC system.****
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> Here are some example comment blocks for code contributors:****
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> If you donated a file to the GeoMoose project, using an MIT license, the
> comment block would include:****
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> *Copyright (c) 2013, **<YourName> (<YourCompanyName>)*****
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> *Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
> copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”),
> to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
> the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, **distribute, sublicense,
> * *and**/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom
> the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:**
> ***
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> *The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
> in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.*****
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> *THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
> OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
> AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
> LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
> FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
> DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.*****
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> The accepted project code would be distributed as:****
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> *Copyright (c) 2013 Dan "Ducky" Little & Geomoose.org*****
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> *Copyright (c) 2013, **<YourName> (<YourCompanyName>)*****
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> *Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
> copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”),
> to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
> the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, *sublicense*,
> and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
> Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:*****
>
> *The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
> in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.*****
>
> *THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
> OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
> AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
> LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
> FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
> DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.*****
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> You could donate it under a BSD, public domain, MIT (see here<http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/floss-license-slide.html>)
> which would result in:****
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> *Copyright (c) 2013 Dan "Ducky" Little & Geomoose.org*****
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> *Copyright (c) 2013, **<YourName> (<YourCompanyName>) (public domain)*****
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> *Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
> copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”),
> to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
> the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, *sublicense*,
> and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
> Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:*****
>
> *The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
> in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.*****
>
> *THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
> OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
> AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
> LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
> FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
> DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.*****
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