[Incubator] GDAL graduation

[Cameron Shorter]

Paul, Frank,
Great to see GDAL reaching graduation, it sounds like GDAL is in good shape.
However, before graduating I think we need further closure on the 
Providence Review Issues. I suspect that you should be able to close 
many of them by either:
1. Receiving clarifications already requested.
2. There was a legal opinion stated by Eric Raymond during the formation 
of OSGeo that Contributions to a project will automatically assume the 
license of the project. You might want to apply this to contributions 
you cannot get a response for.
3. If you don't resolve the license issue, there should be a work off 
plan describing how it will be resolved. Is the code going to be 
rewritten? Is it going to be moved into a separate download?

If there are any outstanding license issues, then there should be an 
informative web page explaining the issues to potential users so they 
understand the risks associated with using the code. A reference to the 
Provenance Review should suffice.

Paul Spencer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> With the release of 1.5.0 and in consultation with Frank, I would like 
> to propose that GDAL is ready for graduation!
>
> The relevant IncCom documentation is available on the wiki:
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/GDAL_Incubation_Progress
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/GDAL_Provenance_Review
>
> The two major issues for GDAL when it entered incubation were the lack 
> of a PSC and some substantial provenance questions.
>
> Over the past year or so (okay, maybe a little longer), I've been 
> watching the formation and growth of the GDAL PSC and the evolution of 
> the project from Frank's self-proclaimed benevolent dictatorship to a 
> healthy, functioning community that works and plays together.  I 
> definitely feel that GDAL's PSC is an excellent example of an 
> effective open source community collaborating to build excellent 
> software and could easily serve as a model citizen for other 
> projects.  GDAL has definitely embraced 'The OSGeo Way' 
> (http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/principles.html).
>
> Under the provenance review topic, there are still 8 TO_RESOLVE 
> markers but it seems Frank has done due diligence in trying to resolve 
> them.  Numerous other issues have been clarified.  I have spot checked 
> the review against the source files with no apparent discrepancies.
>
> I invite folks to provide feedback, comments and discussion for the 
> next week at which time we will proceed with a formal motion.
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
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