[Incubator] Incubation Meeting Monday!
Cameron Shorter
cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Sat Jun 17 00:22:22 EDT 2006
Over the last week or so, I've had more spare time and have been pushing
Mapbuilder through the incubation process.
In particular, I've just completed a license audit of the Mapbuilder
code. I'd be keen to have a review of our licenseAudit and LICENSE.
Then I'd like to hear guidence on what documentation we should be
producing next.
With regards to meeting times, 18:00 UTC is 04:00 in Sydney (Sorry, too
early for me). I will endevour to be online at 06:15, two hours later
if people are still around.
Rich,
Could you please look over our license documents attached and ensure
they are legally ok.
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Folks,
>
> At the face to face meetings a number of us incubators worked to complete
> revision of the proposed OSGeo process documents and I'm quite pleased
> with the result. They can be found at:
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Official_IncCom_Documents_%28status%29
>
> I have scheduled an incubator meeting for this coming Monday, and will
> be asking that we approve these documents then. So I would appreciate
> everyone making a pass over them. Feel free to make minor adjustments
> directly in the wiki. Substantial (ie. policy) changes should likely be
> suggested to the list, and Paul can apply them if the list is agreeable.
>
> At the coming meeting we will also select a new mentor for MapGuide Open
> Source, as Daniel Brookshier is no longer our community manager. I'm
> assuming that this means he won't have the time to continue participating
> in the community.
>
> Also, Paul is very close to recommenting Mapbender for graduation from
> incubation. I don't know if the last small items will be done for Monday
> but I would like us all to review the Mapbender status so we can identify
> any issues that we might consider blockers on Monday. I suspect formal
> recommendation for graduation will at the next next meeting after this
> Monday. But since Mapbender looks like it will be our first graduate it
> would make sense to get ourselves ready for it.
>
> Please feel free to add items to the meeting Agenda at:
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/IncCom_Meeting6
>
> Best regards,
--
Cameron Shorter
http://cameron.shorter.net
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Community Mapbuilder Code Provenance Review
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Last Updated: 16 June 2006
Introduction:
=============
This page documents the results of a Licence audit of the Community Mapbuilder project. It is done in accordance with the OSGEO Foundation guidelines at:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Code_Provenance_Review
The results of the audit are stored in mapbuilder/docs/licenseAudit/licenseAudit.xls
Goal:
=====
To establish a reasonable comfort level that projects going through incubation do not have improperly contributed code, and that the code is all under the project license.
A code provenance review is desirable because it reduces the risk of the foundation, project developers or software users becoming involved in a legal action or having their use of the software disrupted by sudden removal of improperly contributed code. In particular, many enterprises will not build on open source software projects without some degree of assurance that care is being taken to avoid improper contributions.
It is not the goal to be able to prove that every source file, and every contribution to those files, was contributed properly. The onus is not on us to prove there are no problem. However we want to ensure we do not release code with provenance issues that we could have identified and corrected with a reasonable effort.
History:
========
The current Community Mapbuilder codebase, known as mapbuilder-lib, started development in December 2003. It drew a number of design ideas from a dynamic web mapping application written by Raj Singh.
Community Mapbuilder started out under a GLP licence. In May 2005 we decided that Mapbuilder would grow into a stronger project under a LGPL licence and the licence was changed.
All developers who had contributed to the Mapbuilder-devel codebase were contacted and gave their approval to move their code from the GLP to LGPL licence. The decision was archieved in the Mapbuilder-devel email list. Mapbuilder-lib 0.4 and subsequent releases have been licenced under the LGPL. We were unable to contact Amri who had initially been part of design discussions. However, Amri had not contributed to the mapbuilder-lib codebase and hence it was not essential to gain his approval for the license change.
Email threads giving approval for converting to LGPL:
=====================================================
Cameron Shorter, Raj Singh, Nedjo Rodgers:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7652435&forum_id=475
Tom Kralidis:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=12349638
Nedjo Rodgers:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=12254583
Mike Adair:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7653920&forum_id=475
Packaging:
==========
Mapbuilder uses Javascript and XSL which are interpreted languages. I.e. They are cannot be distributed as a binary. However, we do distribute a compressed version of Mapbuilder which removes all white space and comments (including license comments). We believe this is not an issue since we also distribute the source with license information in the comments.
Library Licenses:
=================
Library License Ok? Comment
mapbuilder/lib/util/overlib/* Artistic yes As per: http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/?License
mapbuilder/lib/util/overlibmws/* Artistic yes As per mapbuilder/lib/util/overlibmws/license.html
mapbuilder/lib/util/sarissa/* LGPL yes As per mapbuilder/lib/util/sarissa/Sarissa.js
mapbuilder/lib/util/scalebar/* LGPL yes As per mapbuilder/lib/util/scalebar/license.txt
mapbuilder/lib/util/wz_jsgraphics/* LGPL yes As per http://www.walterzorn.com/ and mapbuilder/lib/util/wz_jsgraphics/wa_jsgraphics.js (references http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html). There is a little confusion because the file references the GPL as well.
mapbuilder/lib/widget/MapScaleBar.js LGLP yes yes External library - should be stored in util directory
License Explaination:
=====================
There are no issues for libraries with LGPL licenses.
The Mapbuilder project doesn't have a problem with the Artistic license as we beleive the intent of the license is compatable with LGPL, but the GNU site has the following to say:
(Original) Artistic License
We cannot say that this is a free software license because it is too vague; some passages are too clever for their own good, and their meaning is not clear. We urge you to avoid using it, except as part of the disjunctive license of Perl.
The problems are matters of wording, not substance. There is a revised version of the Artistic License (dubbed "Artistic License 2.0") which is a free software license, and even compatible with the GNU GPL. This license is being considered for use in Perl 6. If you are thinking of releasing a program under the Artistic License, please do investigate other GPL-compatible, Free Software licensing options listed here first.
The Artistic License 2.0 is currently in a draft phase with The Perl Foundation. FSF is in active negotiations with the Perl Foundation regarding the license, and we look forward to a result which will benefit all users.
Code Copywrite Review:
======================
All files in mapbuilder/lib/* were reviewed. With the following exception, each file either contained a reference to the LGPL or no reference at all. When there is no reference, the license of the project was assumed.
Full details of the audit are stored in mapbuilder/docs/licenseAudit/licenseAudit.xls
The following file had an issue with the license:
Library License Ok? Comment
mapbuilder/lib/util/MGRS.js LGPL no Contains: "Got library from somewhere but don't know where"
mapbuilder/lib/model/Proj.js LGLP yes This program uses algorithms derived from GCTPC at http://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub//software/gctpc/ . As this code belongs to the US Government, we believe it is available to the public domain and hence is compabible with the LGPL.
Copywrite Holders:
==================
The copywrite holders is listed in mapbuilder/LICENSE. Currently this includes:
Name Login Id
==== ========
Cameron Shorter camerons
Linda Derezinski derezinski
Matthew D. Diez mattdiez
Matthew Perry
Michael Jenik maiqui
Mike Adair madair madair1
Nedjo Rogers nedjo
Pat Cappelaere cappelaere
Radim Blazek rabla
Raj Singh rajsingh
Richard Greenwood rgreenwood
Steven M. Ottens graphrisc steven
Tom Kralidis tomkralidis
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MapBuilder is a powerful, standards compliant geographic mapping client
which runs in a web browser. More details at http://communitymapbuilder.org
Mapbuilder source code is copyright (C) 2006 to the following people:
Name Login Id
==== ========
Cameron Shorter camerons
Linda Derezinski derezinski
Matthew D. Diez mattdiez
Matthew Perry
Michael Jenik maiqui
Mike Adair madair madair1
Nedjo Rogers nedjo
Pat Cappelaere cappelaere
Radim Blazek rabla
Raj Singh rajsingh
Richard Greenwood rgreenwood
Steven M. Ottens graphrisc steven
Tom Kralidis tomkralidis
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library 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
Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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It is the intent of this project that all Mapbuilder developers who
have been given write access to the Mapbuilder code repository and
have contributed to source code in mapbuilder/lib/* may become
copyright owners.
Providing a patch to the mailing list does not give someone the right to
become a copyright owner (primarily because it is too hard to track).
Once someone becomes a copyright owner, they do not loose this status
unless they personally request to be removed from the list of copyright
owners listed in this file.
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