[Incubator] Communication ~= progress

[Jody Garnett]

I see; so this recent IRC with Arnulf only looked productive due to 
confusion over what we were trying to accomplish?
So we are back to figuring out what a "signed legal assignment" looks 
like on paper.

Jody

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> This leaves us with three likely models for contributors in OSGeo:
>
> 1) copyright holder retains copyright, but signs a strong CLA (MapGuide,
> FDO, OpenLayers?)
>
> 2) copyright holder retains copyright, but only is only expected to 
> follow
> reasonable contribution guidelines to keep IP clean.  (GDAL, MapServer)
>
> 3) copyright holder turns over copyright to the foundation which
> requires a signed legal assignment on paper. (proposed for GeoTools)
>
> Best regards,