[Incubator] OpenLayers graduation time

[Cameron Shorter]

+1
I'm on the Openlayers PSC and have been privy to PSC emails.
With my OSGeo hat on, I'd normally argue that a process like running a 
PSC should be "institutionalised", ie in place and used for 3 months +, 
I feel that  Openlayers covers this criteria.
Openlayers have been very open in their development processes on list, 
and while the PSC list has been closed, they have a diversity of 
participants and have been working in a very inclusive manner.

Secondly, Openlayers have made a minor modification to the BSD license 
which the call "Clear BSD". This is to address ambiguities which may 
expose patent holders. Metacarta intend to propose Clear BSD as a later 
version of BSD. While I'd like to avoid license prolification, waiting 
for license updates shouldn't delay graduation.

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Howard Butler wrote:
>>  OpenLayers has been operating under the assumptions of being an open 
>> development project for quite a while, and it has been constructing 
>> and constraining its processes and operations with OSGeo incubation 
>> in mind as more contributing organizations have become active in 
>> OpenLayers development.  OpenLayers is mature in this respect, in my 
>> opinion, but I defer to the committee on making the final decision 
>> whether or not to wait for a bit.  I don't think waiting will allow 
>> things to mature any more than they already are, however.
>>
>
> I agree that OpenLayers has a quite diverse and open crowd and that 
> other than the PSC list being private the developers and PSC have 
> operated openly and smoothly for quite a while already. You've 
> convinced me.  :)
>
> Thanks
>
> Daniel


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