[GRASSLIST:10699] Re: [GRASS5] FWD: [OSGeo-Discuss] Incubation Committee / Contributor Agreements]

[Markus Neteler]

Hi,

a new FAQ has been written which explains things related
to the proposed Contributor Agreements:

 http://www.fossgis.de/osgeo/index.php/Contributor_Agreement

Markus

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:53:35PM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
> Dear GRASS community,
> 
> we had a board meeting today in the OSGeo Foundation and
> discussed details such as the project incubation. This
> is a term borrowed from the Apache Foundation where all
> projects wishing to join the foundation have to go through.
> It covers basically license issues, a contributor
> agreement, project management and the state of the
> community (no dead projects are desired). Some draft
> notes can be found here:
> 
> http://www.fossgis.de/osgeo/index.php/Project_Incubation
> (this is the temporary wiki of the OSGeo Foundation unless
> the osgeo.org isn't completely ready).
> 
> Attached I forward a fresh email from Frank Warmerdam
> with more details. Things want to be discussed now.
> 
> Best
> 
>  Markus

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> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:52:15 -0500
> From: Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>
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> To: OSGeo <discuss at mail.osgeo.org>
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Incubation Committee / Contributor Agreements
> 
> 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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