[Incubator] motion: approve POLAR as an OSGeo Community Project

[Nick Bearman]

Hi all: declaring motion passed with the following votes:

      - Angelos Tzotsos +1
      - Arnulf Christl +1
      - Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques
      - Brian M Hamlin
      - Daniel Morissette +1
      - Dimitris Kotzinos
      - Frank Warmerdam
      - Jo Cook
      - Jody Garnett
      - Michael Smith +1
      - Nick Bearman +1
      - Regina Obe
      - Steve Lime +1
      - Tom Kralidis +1

7 votes in favour.

I have now added POLAR as an OSGeo Community Project on the website: 
https://www.osgeo.org/projects/polar/ and closed the gitea issue: 
https://gitea.osgeo.org/osgeo/projects-support/issues/14

Welcome to OSGeo POLAR!

For those interested, there was a couple of comments on individual file 
level vs repository level licensing approaches:

jive <https://gitea.osgeo.org/jive> commented 2 weeks ago 
<https://gitea.osgeo.org/osgeo/projects-support/issues/14#issuecomment-14262> 

Owner

I understand about not wishing the bulk of headers, you may wish to take 
the more modern / fashionable approach of using SPDX-License-Identifier 
in each file, and maintain the license in the source directory.

My understanding is many of the license compatibility tools search for 
SPDX-License-Identifier, and you do not wish folks copying and pasting 
after finding your code via web search to have an excuse for missing 
"open source" label.

<https://gitea.osgeo.org/polar>
polar <https://gitea.osgeo.org/polar> commented last week 
<https://gitea.osgeo.org/osgeo/projects-support/issues/14#issuecomment-14269> 

Author

We are aware of the disadvantages and potential risks described. 
However, we have consciously decided to forgo licence markings in 
individual files and instead rely on a repository-level licence file.

Best wishes and thanks for all your efforts and committee members for 
voting.
Nick.


On 28/03/2026 16:57, Daniel Morissette via Incubator wrote:
> +1
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On 2026-03-19 11:08, Nick Bearman via Incubator wrote:
>> Motioning to accept POLAR as an OSGeo Community Project
>>
>> The check list has been completed at 
>> https://gitea.osgeo.org/osgeo/projects-support/issues/14
>>
>> The motion is held open for two weeks until Thursday 2 April and
>> requires at least 50% quorum from the following Committee Members:
>>
>>      - Angelos Tzotsos
>>      - Arnulf Christl
>>      - Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques
>>      - Brian M Hamlin
>>      - Daniel Morissette
>>      - Dimitris Kotzinos
>>      - Frank Warmerdam
>>      - Jo Cook
>>      - Jody Garnett
>>      - Michael Smith
>>      - Nick Bearman +1
>>      - Regina Obe
>>      - Steve Lime
>>      - Tom Kralidis
>>
>> I am happy with this, and am starting with a +1
>>
>> Thanks
>> Nick.
>>
>
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