[Java-collab] collab svn again

Jody Garnett jody.garnett at gmail.com
Fri Oct 30 01:51:09 EDT 2009


> I am sorry if I have caused confusion here. deegree has always been licensed under the
> LGPL and this applies of course to the geometry code of deegree 3 as well.

You are fine Markus; it is me causing confusion. We are waiting
instead on code contribution agreement to OSGeo (LGPL is just part of
that contribution agreement).

> As I stated earlier, only the legal implications of the copyright assignment to GeoTools/OSGeo are holding us back (not
> the LGPL license). It's actually not so easy to understand the legal consequences of the code copyright assignment
> document when you're not a lawyer. Maybe some OSGeo legal guy can help to make this a bit more clear -- I think the part
> in question is section II. This could also help other (incubating) projects, so they know if they should be fine with
> assigning the copyright.

Okay; so how should we proceed with this? Talk to a board member or
ask the incubation committee.

Jody


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