[Incubator] Proposing Loader as an OSGeo Community Project

Sun Aug 19 14:03:47 PDT 2018

No it is not a deal breaker, but it is worth consideration as an open
source best-practice. It can be a quick two lines reminding people that the
project is MIT licensed and providing a URL rather than the full license.

The point of asking projects to check their headers is something (anything)
easier then asking for a full providence review. If you find that easier
(with a relatively small codebase) then checking headers it may be a good
alternative? The idea was that checking headers could be done quickly with
a sed script rather than asking for a providence review like we do in
incubation.
--
Jody Garnett

On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 at 02:48, Jo Cook <jocook at astuntechnology.com> wrote:

> 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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