[Incubator] Proposing Loader as an OSGeo Community Project

Wed Aug 15 02:47:45 PDT 2018

Thanks Jody,

We've updated the contributors page to include something on licensing.
We're not convinced about the need for headers with the MIT license, but
we'll have some internal discussions about this. Is it a deal-breaker for
getting the project accepted as a community project?

Jo

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 1:12 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> No need to take on a CLA unless you want to, there are advantages of
> course. But some indication on the contributing page that the work is being
> contributed will be distributed as MIT maybe smart (obvious but smart).
>
> We had extensive discussion with Ben and OSGeo legal on headers.
> Apparently they do not serve a legal purpose, but are still wise (once
> again to show license if someone finds the code by web search and wants to
> cut and paste).
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 1:34 AM María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is good news, more projects being added to OSGeo :)
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Jo Cook <jocook at astuntechnology.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jody,
>>>
>>> Many thanks for your response.
>>>
>>> We've taken on board the comment about the contributors license, and
>>> gone for the approach that openlayers uses, this is now reflected at
>>> https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#
>>> contributor-license-agreement
>>>
>>> Regarding license headers- since it's licensed under MIT, then as far as
>>> we can tell there isn't a legal requirement to include them, however if
>>> from an OSGeo perspective you would like us to, then we can do that.
>>>
>>> Thanks again,
>>>
>>> Jo
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 5:21 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In terms of adding it to the website:
>>>>
>>>> 1. geospatial
>>>>
>>>> check :)
>>>>
>>>> 2. open source
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
>>>> - check
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader/blob/master/python/loader.py
>>>> - no header but perhaps that is not the python way?
>>>>
>>>> 3. participatory
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
>>>> - check
>>>> - double check - odd it does not mention to contributors that they are
>>>> releasing their contribution as open source?
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
>>>> - can see a stream of pull requests
>>>>
>>>> 4. checking headers (see table https://wiki.osgeo.org/
>>>> wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects)
>>>>
>>>> Not sure what to do on this one, if the python projects are not used to
>>>> having headers it seems silly to ask. The goal of the table above was to
>>>> split up the work of "providence review" and focus on checking headers
>>>> (which can be done with sed or similar) just as a sanity check that all the
>>>> source code is in fact open source.
>>>> --
>>>> Jody Garnett
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 at 02:48, Jo Cook <jocook at astuntechnology.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Incubation List,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to propose Loader (https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader)
>>>>> as an OSGeo Community Project.
>>>>>
>>>>> Switching hats from being an Incubation Committee Member- Loader was
>>>>> developed by my colleague at Astun Technology, Matt Walker, as a
>>>>> high-performance python wrapper around ogr2ogr, for primarily loading large
>>>>> quantities of Ordnance Survey Mastermap data into postgreSQL (or other
>>>>> formats). It has since been expanded to cover the loading of other Ordnance
>>>>> Survey data sources, the most recent work being around loading data for
>>>>> routing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Loader is licensed under an MIT license, accepts contributions, and
>>>>> has a relatively active community- it's used by a lot of organisations for
>>>>> bulk loading data, including the Ordnance Survey themselves. I think it
>>>>> meets the requirements for a Community Project already but I'm happy to be
>>>>> corrected.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the longer term we'd like to put it forward for full Incubation,
>>>>> but one step at a time!
>>>>>
>>>>> If there's any conflict of interest with me being a member of the
>>>>> Incubation Committee and with a vested interest in Loader then please let
>>>>> me know.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Jo
>>>>>
>>>>>
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