[Incubator] labs project assigning copyright

[Peter Baumann]

Frank-

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Peter Baumann wrote:
>   
>> Hi all (+ Bruce, as our incubation mentor),
>>
>> an issue of interest to us (rasdaman) as well.
>> Following some google sessions, we have established an approach as follows:
>> - patches are accepted only via the official website and the resp. form
>>
>> - and, to allow for submission, the Submitter Agreement must be accepted
>> - which then is bundled with the patch into a tarball stored in our 
>> patch repository, and will never be deleted.
>>
>> My understanding (but not my invention) is that this way we can prove 
>> that any code submitted has agreed to the license model.
>>
>> Q: is this procedure considered adequate by OSGeo?
>>     
>
> Peter,
>
> Is agreement to the submitter agreement done via a web click through?
>   
the form is built such that you only can submit it once the agreement is 
agreed to.
See http://kahlua.eecs.jacobs-university.de:8000/trac/rasdaman/patchmanager
> Could you provide a reference to the submitter agreement?
>   
...is accessible from said page.

-Peter

> On the face of it, this sounds like a thorough solution.
>
> Best regards,
>   

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