[Incubator] motion : accept vMap as an OSGeo Comunity Project

[Jody Garnett]

We did do some research and found that legally license headers are not
required, but they do help socially (for when folks find the code via
search and cut and paste).
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Jody Garnett


On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 at 09:33, Armand Bahi <armand.bahi at veremes.com> wrote:

> Hi Jo,
>
> Thank you for your welcome
>
> For the license we use the Cecill-B witch is basically a BSD French
> adapted, if this is a problem I think we could change to BSD.
>
> In our code files we have never included a license headers I'm going to
> work on this and hopefully get it done next week.
>
> Creating a contributors.md file seems a good idea, I'll work on this too.
>
> Tanks for your help,
> Best Regards
> [image: Veremes] <http://www.veremes.com>
> Armand Bahi
> Software development engineer / vMap project manager
> armand.bahi at veremes.com
> +33 4 68 38 65 27 <+33468386527>
> Le 22/08/2019 à 17:43, Jo Cook a écrit :
>
> Hi Armand,
>
> Welcome! I've taken a look at the gitlab repository at
> https://gitlab.veremes.net/open-source/vmap and checked our guidelines at
> https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation/.
>
> The guidelines for community projects are:
>
>    - geospatial
>    - open source license, with source code check of headers
>    - accepts contributions
>
> It's definitely geospatial, so that ticks off the first item in the list.
> The license is an unusual one to me, and I had to google it, which led me
> to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CeCILL. People with more experience that
> I might have a different view on this, but I wonder if you should state
> somewhere the difference between your license and BSD/MIT?
>
> Also, I did a random check of some code in a few folders and I couldn't
> find many files with license headers. Is that something you could look at?
>
> Finally contributions- I can see from the repository contributors graph
> that you have commits from a number of people, which is good, but including
> a contributors.md file to help guide new people wanting to commit would be
> helpful. This might be the best place to add some explanation about your
> license.
>
> All the best
>
> Jo
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 4:21 PM Armand Bahi <armand.bahi at veremes.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Few months ago on the 13th "Jornadas de SIG libre" in Girona (Spain)
>> we've make a presentation of our WebGIS vMap (
>> https://vimeo.com/showcase/6126225/video/347719352).
>>
>> vMap is an OpenSource WebGIS tool based on PostgreSQL / PostGIS, you can
>> find more information on the documentation
>> https://vmap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/presentation/presentation/
>>
>> At the end of the presentation María Arias de Reyna from OSGeo Spain
>> asked me why do not make vMap as an OSGeo Community Project and I told her
>> it would be an honor to do it. So we start working on traducing the
>> software and documentation and searching other companies to share the
>> project management.
>>
>> Today translation is almost done and a company that work mostly on 3D
>> data using lidar and drones wants to join the team.
>>
>> We are really interested on working with OSGeo so I would be glad to have
>> your opinion.
>> Best regards,
>> --
>> [image: Veremes] <http://www.veremes.com>
>> Armand Bahi
>> Software development engineer / vMap project manager
>> armand.bahi at veremes.com
>> +33 4 68 38 65 27 <+33468386527>
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