[Incubator] Transfering Code Copyright - restart

Jody Garnett jgarnett at refractions.net
Thu Sep 7 02:30:26 EDT 2006


Good suggestion Frank,
Is there any chance we can acquire (or make our own letter) over the 
course of next week - I think Friday will represent the largest 
concentration of GeoTools developers every.
Cheers,
Jody

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> All that said the next step for GeoTools seems to be for them to take
> a copyright assignment letter to as many contributors as they can
> identify.  Can you provide some sort of template copyright assignment
> letter we should use?  Since it is hard to identify specific files I
> am hoping that each contributor could sign a letter indicating that
> copyright for all their contributions that are in the GeoTools SVN
> repository as of a particular date (perhaps also with an url
> identifying the SVN repository in question) are to be assigned to the
> foundation.  Is that a reasonable approach?
>
> Once they have such a template letter, they can get people to start
> printing them, signing them, and mailing them to OSGeo for storage
> somewhere.
>
> Best regards,






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