[GeoNode-devel] How to handle copyrights on contributions?

[Craig Stephenson]

Thanks for the quick response, Jeffrey. I'll go ahead and submit the pull
request with the default OpenPlans copyright notice.

We will certainly submit a pull request for the gallery once we're finished
with the first iteration of our project. Thanks for taking an interest in
it!

Craig

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortelius at gmail.com> wrote:

> For now just go ahead and use the default copyright notice. Open plans
> doesn't actually exist anymore and we are in the process of transferring
> copyright to osgeo, but need copyright all the same for now.
>
> Btw, I saw your project come up in a Google alert and it looks intriguing.
> When you are ready can you send a pull request against the gallery in the
> website repo so we can all learn more about your project.
> On Dec 3, 2015 08:04, "Craig Stephenson" <cstephen at iarc.uaf.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I wrote a new manage.py command script that changes the title of a layer
>> on a specified map (in the "MapLayers" model as opposed to the
>> map-independent layer title that lives in the "Layers" model). I plan to
>> contribute this to the project, but I have a question first.
>>
>> I used this file as a rough template of how to organize my script:
>>
>> geonode/geonode/maps/management/commands/updatemaplayerip.py
>>
>> That file has the following copyright notice:
>>
>> #########################################################################
>> #
>> # Copyright (C) 2012 OpenPlans
>> #
>> # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
>> # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>> # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
>> # (at your option) any later version.
>> #
>> # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>> # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
>> # GNU General Public License for more details.
>> #
>> # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>> # along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>> #
>> #########################################################################
>>
>> Should I put a similar copyright notice at the top of my file, with the
>> current year and my organization's name (Scenarios Network for Alaska +
>> Arctic Planning)? I'm just not sure how copyrights work when I'm
>> contributing to an existing project.
>>
>> I'll create a Pull Request as soon as I have an answer to this. Thanks!
>>
>> Craig
>>
>> --
>> *Craig Stephenson*
>> Web Manager
>> International Arctic Research Center (IARC)
>> www.iarc.uaf.edu
>>
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*Craig Stephenson*
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International Arctic Research Center (IARC)
www.iarc.uaf.edu
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