[Incubator] Contributor Agreements - Revisited

[jgarnett at refractions.net]

Quoting Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>:

> Jody Garnett wrote:
> > Afternoon Bob,
> >
> > I am running through a similar set of hoops for GeoTools, do you mind if
> > I take your document to our PMC as an example? There was a volunteer
> > with an address over the course of FOSS, my memory says FrankW but that
> > may be because he volunteers for most things.
> >
> > In the specific case of GeoTools we are looking at assigning the
> > copyright to OSGeo, so contact info for the foundation would still be
> > needed.
> 
> Jody,
> 
> Note the contributor agreement is quite distinct from code assignment, for
> which there is a different suggested form.  I can try to dig it up if you
> need it.
> 
That would be great Frank, I suppose I was not clear on the difference (both
agreements involve people turning over code they have contributed to OSGeo? Are
we treating things differently because the code already is in existence?

Jody