[Incubator] Motion: Recommend gvSIG for Incubation

[Jody Garnett]

That has been my experience; but it is understandable considering the 
project. Between the GPL license and project deadlines gvSig is known 
for rolling their own. This is more the reality of open source 
development and not a strike against the gvSIG project.

You can often quickly code up something for a short term result; but to 
contribute back (and make the result suitable for a wider audience) 
takes time and may not be financially worthwhile. Personally I have done 
this myself more than once - as an example a custom branch of uDig 
created on a deadline contained an improved XML parser - that almost two 
years later will finally be returned to GeoTools.

Cheers,
Jody
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> Incubation Committee Members,
>>
>> I motion that the gvSIG project be recommended to the OSGeo board for
>> entrance into incubation with Gabriel Carrión as project representative
>> and Jeroen Ticheler as mentor.
>>
>
> Looks like a very interesting project, but one thing that made me 
> hesitant was that in the last IncCom IRC meeting something was said 
> about the project developers not planning to or not being able to 
> contribute to other OSGeo projects that are not GPL. So basically they 
> would be users of other projects but not contribute back. This bugged 
> me a bit, and I never really understood the reasons behind that, were 
> they contractual reasons or other ??? But anyway, I think later on in 
> the meeting we felt some openness to change that, so hopefully there 
> will be some real 2-way collaboration between gvSIG and other 
> Java/OSGeo projects since collaboration between projects is one of the 
> key reasons to have OSGeo in my opinion.
>
> That being said, I vote +1 for gvSIG to enter incubation, and will 
> hope to see some signs of collaboration with other projects by the 
> time we vote on its graduation.
>
> Daniel