[Incubator] The Open Data Cube as a OSGeo Community Project

[Jody Garnett]

This discussion, and your projects decision on how to open source, is why
we have this check list.

It is minimal, the part that is weak is noting the person or organization
responsible. Headers with such information can help when doing a providence
review (where the code came from), but git history even better :)

So back at you - what is appropriate for your project? And do you find any
odd files when checking your headers? Most projects do...

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 6:53 PM Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Even, that looks like a really simple solution!
>
> Does anyone see any issues with Even's proposed approach?
>
> On Thu, 7 May 2020 at 09:22, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On jeudi 7 mai 2020 09:09:01 CEST Alex Leith wrote:
>>
>> > Hey Jody
>>
>> >
>>
>> > Thanks for the advice.
>>
>> >
>>
>> > We had a look at the Apache license documentation and it says:
>>
>> > >Each original source document (code and documentation, but not the
>> LICENSE
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>> >
>>
>> > and NOTICE files) *should* include a short license header
>>
>> > https://infra.apache.org/apply-license.html#new
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>> >
>>
>> > Does the OSGeo Project process require the license to be in headers, or
>>
>> > simply encourage?
>>
>>
>>
>> Not speaking on behalf of OSGeo, but I'd suggest using the the one-line
>> variant offered by the SPDX initiative, which is adopted by the Linux
>> Kernel project among others, and has the advantage of conveying explicit
>> non-ambiguous licensing in a short way, and to be easily analyzed by
>> automated tools (compliance checking). Just put the following at the
>> beginning of files (way of commenting to be adopted with the one offered by
>> the programming language)
>>
>>
>>
>> // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
>>
>>
>>
>> See https://spdx.org/ids-how
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>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Spatialys - Geospatial professional services
>>
>> http://www.spatialys.com
>>
>
>
> --
> Alex Leith
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Jody Garnett
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