[Incubator] [Mobilitydb-dev] MobilityDB as a OSGeo Community Project

Thu Nov 19 08:27:10 PST 2020

Hi Jody, incubation committee,

After Jody's review below, we have fixed issue#5
<https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB-admin/issues/5> and corrected the
copyright and license information in the files headers. Now all files have
the respective copyright and license in their headers. Examples are given
below. The changes have been applied to the Develop branch, and they will
be merged into Master at the next release.

According to Jody's review, this was the only remaining requirement for us
to fulfill the OSGeo Community Projects checklist
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects>. Of course you are
welcome to give more comments. We have created these issues
<https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB-admin/issues> to facilitate your
review, so you can comment/close. Looking forward to your feedback.

- All code files, c, h, sql, and the test scripts are provided under The
PostgreSQL License, which is OSI approved
<https://opensource.org/licenses/PostgreSQL>
Example header: (
https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB/blob/develop/src/doublen.c)

>
> /*****************************************************************************
>  *
>  * doublen.c
>  *  Internal types used for the average and centroid temporal aggregates.
>  *
>  * This MobilityDB code is provided under The PostgreSQL License.
>  *
>  * Copyright (c) 2020, Université libre de Bruxelles and MobilityDB
> contributors
>  *
>  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
> documentation for any purpose, without fee, and without a written agreement
> is hereby
>  * granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph
> and the following two paragraphs appear in all copies.
>  *
>  * IN NO EVENT SHALL UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY
> FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES,
> INCLUDING LOST
>  * PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE AND ITS DOCUMENTATION,
> EVEN IF UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
> OF SUCH
>  * DAMAGE.
>  *
>  * UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES,
> INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
> AND FITNESS
>  * FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE SOFTWARE PROVIDED HEREUNDER IS ON AN "AS
> IS" BASIS, AND UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES HAS NO OBLIGATIONS TO PROVIDE
>  * MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT, UPDATES, ENHANCEMENTS, OR MODIFICATIONS.
>  *
>
>  *****************************************************************************/
>

- Documentation License: <https://docs.mobilitydb.com/MobilityDB/develop/>

> This is the manual for MobilityDB v1.0. The MobilityDB Manual is licensed
> under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License 3
> <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>. Feel free to use this
> material any way you like, but we ask that you attribute credit to the
> MobilityDB Project and wherever possible, a link back to MobilityDB
> <https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB>.
> [image: image.png]
>

Best regards,
Mahmoud SAKR

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 11:46 PM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Vicky (and everyone taking part in OSGeo sprint this week).
>
> I have not had much capacity for volunteer work recently, however any
> committee member should be able to review. The team has started making some
> issues <https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB-admin/issues> which make
> a handy guide.
>
> So if I grab our list
> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects> and the project
> repository <https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB>
>
> 1. Be geospatial
> - README <https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB/blob/master/README.md> -
> looks good as "geospatial trajectory data management & analysis platform"
> - https://www.osgeo.org/projects/mobilitydb/ - website check
> - https://docs.mobilitydb.com/MobilityDB/master/ - some user docs (found
> from osgeo page above)
>
> 2. Have a free license or an open source license
> - LICENSE.txt
> <https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB/blob/master/LICENSE.txt> -
> postgresql license (so open source), seems to be missing a line from the
> original <https://www.postgresql.org/about/licence/>, but agrees with OSI
> https://opensource.org/licenses/PostgreSQL
> - Check the headers:  I guess this is being done? Issue#5
> <https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB-admin/issues/5>
>
> 3. Welcome participation and new contributors
> - CONTRIBUTING.md
> <https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md>
> has lots of options
> - closed pull request
> <https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed> show
> a range of participants
> - Code of conduct, with  Prof. Esteban Zimanyi as contact
>
> So it looks good, I guess we wait for an update from the team on checking
> headers.
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 14:24, Vicky Vergara <vicky at georepublic.de> wrote:
>
>> Hello Incubation committee
>>
>> I was wondering about the status of MobilityDB to be included as an *OSGeo
>> Community Project*.
>> We've been working very hard to make this happen, please let us Know if
>> we are missing something to become an OSGeo community project.
>> Thanks
>> Vicky
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 12:38 AM Mahmoud SAKR <mahmoud.sakr at ulb.ac.be>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Great, thanks for confirming. We will wait for further feedback then.
>>>
>>> Some mistake at my side changed the title of the previous message to
>>> "Open Data Cube...". Sorry for this mixing. I correct it here.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 6:36 AM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just a few comments inline:
>>>>
>>>>>         We ask that the project demonstrate collaboration, perhaps
>>>>> with a history of bug report or pull requests
>>>>>
>>>>>    - Both in github and in OSGeo website, we show the team of
>>>>>       contributors, and the steering committee members. But I got to say that we
>>>>>       are just starting in this respect. There are currently few external
>>>>>       collaborators. Most of the development is still done by the core team. We
>>>>>       are however open for collaboration, and we hope that becoming an OSGeo
>>>>>       community project will bring more collaboration. We need to give time to
>>>>>       the community to join the project and start collaborating.
>>>>>
>>>>> And that is fine, this is one reason why we start slow with a
>>>> CONTRIBUTING.md file, and the PRs and notes you provided below are great.
>>>>
>>>> I also got a chance 1st hand to see your group join the Bolsena 2020
>>>> code sprint :)
>>>>
>>>> aside: It can be quite a big step for some organizations to think
>>>> through how to accept outside contributions, and notice they are no longer
>>>> the sole "owner" of a codebase. Indeed many groups just use an open source
>>>> license to publish because they can never get legal approval to work with
>>>> others.
>>>>
>>>> Please consider this message as an *Application of MobilityDB for
>>>>> OSGeo Community Project*.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Great, I appreciate your work thus far. It will take me some time to
>>>> double check and make a motion (so if any other committee member wants to
>>>> have a go please step up).
>>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>>
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>>
>> Vicky Vergara
>> Operations Research
>>
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>>
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