[Incubator] Communication ~= progress

[Cameron Shorter]

Following on from my comments in IRC,
Regarding assignment of copywrite. At the following meeting, it was 
argued by Eric Raymond, then passed that Contributor License Agreements 
(CLA)s are not required by projects.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/IncCom_Meeting2

I think this is different to geotools' situation which requires 
retrospective re-assignment of copywrite to OSGeo.

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Jody Garnett wrote:
>> Cameron and Arnulf stopped by the weekly GeoTools IRC meeting and 
>> helped get communication going again. I am a bit scared that we 
>> wasted literally months of time over miscommunication with the board 
>> .... but we may now have a way forward.
>>
>> - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Update+GeoTools+Headers
>> - 
>> http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/2007/10/15/IRC+Logs+Breakout+on+Iccubation 
>>
>>
>> This all hinges on the assumption that the OSGeo foundation is 
>> comfortable having commit history acts as an agreement, I am going to 
>> crash the next board meeting and confirm this.
>
> Jody,
>
> All legal advice we have received indicates that a cvs commit action
> does not constitute "assignment of copyright".  Though we have taken
> the position that it is sufficient to declare a change of license
> as long as it is done by the copyright holder, or with their agreement.
>
> So, are you talking about a commit operation for copyright assignment
> or for licensing?
>
> Best regards,


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Cameron Shorter
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