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

[Alex Leith]

Hey Folks

Finally making some progress here.

I'm using this tool, which works well:
https://github.com/johann-petrak/licenseheaders

And I'm planning to use this text. Any issues with my proposed wording?

#
# Copyright (c) 2015-2020 ODC Contributors
#
# This file is part of the Open Data Cube
# See https://opendatacube.org for more information
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
#

On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 17:20, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah this kind of thing can be quick (many projects keep track of code
> from day one) or take years (for geoserver we eventually sat down with a
> code sprint and git history).
>
> Here is a script I made, that produced a CSV file, that I then open up in
> a spreadsheet:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> for file in `git ls-files -x src/*`
> do
>     HASH=`git log --diff-filter=A --format="%H" -- $file | tail -n 1`
>     AUTHOR=`git show -s --format="%aN" --date=short $HASH --`
>     CREATED=`git show -s --format="%cd" --date=short $HASH --`
>     MODIFIED=`git log --format="%cd" --date=short -n 1 -- $file`
>     printf "%s,%s,%s,%s,%s\n" $file "$AUTHOR" "${CREATED:0:4}"
> "${MODIFIED:0:4}" $HASH
> done
>
> Reference: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=442206
>
> Keep in mind some of the fun of this exercise is to double check where
> your code actually came from and confirm you have permission to distribute
> it as open source. While a script can provide a running start, it is your
> confidence in what you have done as a team that we are really going for
> here :)
>
> Also note that code providence audits like this are performed when
> evaluating software projects for use. Performing this check yourself lowers
> the bar for organizations wishing to use your software.
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 at 16:56, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Markus!
>>
>> I'll have a read of it, but I haven't got much experience running perl
>> and we are probably better off whipping up something custom.
>>
>> Always nice to see the history!
>>
>> On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 at 05:08, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I searched around for a while,
>>>
>>> found
>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Incubation_Progress
>>> --> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Provenance_Review
>>>
>>> with the hint
>>> "Kudos to Schuyler Erle for writing the PERL script which quite helped
>>> (tools/copywrite.pl). The expansion of CVS names was done by reading
>>> in contributors.csv."
>>>
>>> and voilà:
>>> https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/blob/master/tools/copywrite.pl
>>>
>>> (originally added on April 27, 2006:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/OSGeo/grass-legacy/blob/develbranch_6/tools/copywrite.pl
>>> )
>>>
>>> Dunno if it helps in your case but nothing is lost ;-)
>>>
>>> Markus
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 12:38 AM Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I've been procrastinating on this for a long time... I will get to it,
>>> but if there is an existing script, that would help!
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 at 02:02, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi Alex,
>>> >>
>>> >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 12:55 AM Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Oh nice!
>>> >> >
>>> >> > I'm working on ODC as an OSGeo project... I just need to find a day
>>> to add headers to all our Python files to progress to the next stage.
>>> >>
>>> >> I did much of this job back then for GRASS GIS (in 2006 or so): we
>>> >> used a script to generate and inject draft headers with author names
>>> >> extracted from the repo log.
>>> >> Don't know if I can still find this tool but others here may have done
>>> >> something similar.
>>> >>
>>> >> Cheers,
>>> >> Markus
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Alex Leith
>>> > m: 0419189050
>>>
>>> --
>>> Markus Neteler, PhD
>>> https://www.mundialis.de - free data with free software
>>> https://grass.osgeo.org
>>> https://courses.neteler.org/blog
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Alex Leith
>> m: 0419189050
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>

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Alex Leith
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