[Geomoose-users] Re: Just went through the incubation committee meeting log.

[Jody Garnett]

Oh Can I intervene here :-)  

The incubation process really does not want you to change anything if we can avoid it. Only confirm what you are already doing and how your project ticks over.

To repeat you holding (c) is fine. And having more than one (c) holder is also fine.
--  
Jody Garnett


On Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 12:25 PM, Dan Little wrote:

> The license is MIT.  I just wrote Eli a lengthy email about the (c) holder issue being me and GeoMOOSE.org (http://GeoMOOSE.org).
>  
> I'm consulting with a few folks before proposing a solution.  In the mean time, I will work to post licenses in the files in which they are missing. (Doing that now...)
>  
> > From: Jim Klassen <klassen.js at gmail.com (mailto:klassen.js at gmail.com)>
> > To: eadam at co.lincoln.or.us (mailto:eadam at co.lincoln.or.us)  
> > Cc: Bob Basques <Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us (mailto:Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us)>; "geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org (mailto:geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org)" <geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org (mailto:geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org)>  
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 11:46 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] Re: Just went through the incubation committee meeting log.
> >  
> >  
> > On Mar 21, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Eli Adam wrote:
> >  
> > >> 2) MIT based license
> > >>  
> > >> You are running your own license here
> > >> (http://geomoose.org/info/license.html) as such do you need it recognised by
> > >> OSI? Or is MIT based enough?
> > >>  
> > >> If you want we can ask the incubation committee - or you can just decide and
> > >> tell us how it is :-)
> > >  
> > > Perhaps MIT 'based' is a misnomer.  A diff of
> > > http://geomoose.org/info/license.html  and
> > > http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php produces:
> > >  
> > > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> > > -Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
> > > +Copyright (c) 2009-2010, Dan “Ducky” Little & GeoMOOSE.org (http://GeoMOOSE.org)
> > >  
> > > 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:
> > >  
> > > This makes it look like it *is* MIT rather than MIT *based*.
> > >  
> >  
> > Dan and/or Bob correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC the *based* part is a historical artifact from the 1.x series that had a City of St. Paul copyright which was similar to MIT.  We had wanted MIT (to match MapServer) but the city lawyers felt they needed to change something.  (It was a bit of a battle to convince them that creating an entirely new open source license would essentially defeat adoption and so MIT based was a compromise.)  Note: The 2.x series was written from scratch (primarily by Duck) after he left the city so this isn't an issue for 2.x.
> >  
> > >>  
> > >> 3) Um where is the source code? There is no link from your home page or
> > >> download page - do you make a download of the source available for each
> > >> release? Ah I found it by trial and error ...
> > >  
> > > Has been updated in trunk for a while.  Website is a snapshot
> > > currently, will switch to auto-generation soon.
> > >  
> > > Thanks for the help, I think that Code Provenience is one of those
> > > tasks that sounds worse than it is (and thus is avoided).
> > >  
> > > Eli
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