[Incubator] MOSS "heritage" project

[Jody Garnett]

I hope it won't require much effort, I really just want to put the codebase
on osgeo github (wider reach than our gitlab), and set up a page on the
website (perhaps link to it from the sol katz award page).

Perhaps I missed something, I am not aware of any hardcopy materials, if
there are any it would be up to secretary at osgeo.org to manage.
--
Jody Garnett


On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 at 17:38, Bruce Bannerman <
bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jody,
>
> I’ve been following the discussions on the Board list.
>
> I can still remember being trained in MOSS in the mid 80’s. It certainly
> made an impression on me having then come from a mainly Intergraph IGDS
> background.
>
> I believe that:
>
>
>    - It is appropriate for OSGeo to be the ‘Home’ for the legacy MOSS IP
>    and artefacts.
>
>
>
>    - It will probably require some effort to put this together.
>
>
>
>    - From the discussions that I’ve seen so far, I suspect that there is
>    also hardcopy material as well that will need to be archived:
>       - I recall a similar discussion a year or two ago about some legacy
>       GRASS hardcopy materials.
>       - I don’t know that a group of virtual volunteers is necessarily
>       the right forum for preserving these hardcopy artefacts.
>       - Where could they be physically located and preserved?
>       - However, the hardcopy artefacts may be very important as evidence
>       of ‘prior art’, for those organisations and countries that need to deal
>       with ’software patents’.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Bruce
>
>
> On 7 Oct 2020, at 14:54, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Apparently the source code for the MOSS project, the work of Sol Katz, has
> been recovered.
> Starting an email thread with respect to providing a "home" for this
> source code at OSGeo (figured the incubation committee was in the best
> position to act).
>
> Holding on to inactive projects, is good in terms of IP precedence, and in
> this case as a historical artifact.
>
> The discussion on the board has proposed a "heritage" status, we already
> have project retiring process
> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Project_Retiring_Process>, used for
> community mapbuilder (see #322 <https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/322>).
> --
> Jody Garnett
> _______________________________________________
> Incubator mailing list
> Incubator at lists.osgeo.org
> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/attachments/20201016/95dc7cd8/attachment.html>