[Incubator] PyWPS code contribution agreements

[Cameron Shorter]

Tom,
Copyright needs to be allocated to a legal entity. I assume the "PyWPS 
Development Team" is not an incorporated entity. "PyWPS Development 
Team, represented by Jachym Cepicky" is probably questionable.

Assigning to a person is ok. Assigning to a company or organisation like 
the OSGeo Foundation is also legally ok.

On 23/02/2016 5:25 am, David William Bitner wrote:
> You could just assign to OSGeo right now so that you don't have to 
> change anything later on.
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Jachym Cepicky 
> <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com <mailto:jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     the master branch licence says:
>
>     Copyright (C) 2014-2016 PyWPS Development Team, represented by
>     Jachym Cepicky
>
>     Copyright should currently go to one person - me - in order to
>     make e.g. joining of OSGeo easier
>
>     J
>
>     po 22. 2. 2016 v 15:31 odesílatel Even Rouault
>     <even.rouault at spatialys.com <mailto:even.rouault at spatialys.com>>
>     napsal:
>
>         Le lundi 22 février 2016 14:23:24, Tom Kralidis a écrit :
>         > Hi all: in PyWPS we are working through code contributor and
>         license policy
>         > as per the project graduation checklist [1].
>         >
>         > The project is moving with [2] as source code header/copyright.
>         >
>         > Given this copyright do we still require specific code
>         contribution
>         > agreements? Guessing yes, but looking for confirmation here.
>
>         There's the alternative mentionned in
>         https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_FAQ#Q:_Is_a_code_contribution_agreement_required
>         :
>         - either each contributor (or depending on the situation:
>         their employer, or
>         the entity funding the work, etc...) retains his copyright
>         - either they accept to assign copyright to a single entity
>         such as "Copyright
>         (C) 2014-YYYY PyWPS Development Team, represented by
>         PyWPS Project Steering Committee". But I'm not sure if the
>         later would be a
>         valid legal entity that could exercice its rights regarding
>         copyright
>         enforcement.
>
>         (My personal opinion: for the X/MIT license, there's probably
>         little point in
>         having copyright assignment to a single entity. Makes more
>         sense if you use a
>         copyleft license to reconsider later relicensing to non-copyleft)
>
>         >
>         > Thanks
>         >
>         > ..Tom
>         >
>         > [1]
>         https://github.com/geopython/pywps/issues/84#issuecomment-184989790
>         > [2]
>         https://github.com/geopython/pywps/wiki/Templates#source-code-header
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