Provenance spreadsheet...

Yewondwossen Assefa assefa at DMSOLUTIONS.CA
Mon Jun 18 21:17:22 EDT 2007


Thanks. Committed.

Steve Lime wrote:
> I can't think of any reason why not.
> 
> Steve
> 
>>>> On 6/15/2007 at 2:18 PM, in message <4672E5F9.1090307 at dmsolutions.ca>,
> Yewondwossen Assefa <assefa at DMSOLUTIONS.CA> wrote:
>> Sorry for missing the IRC. I just read through the discussions.
>> I did update this morning all the headers of the files that were mostly 
>> done by DMSG/Mapgears.  I also updated the speard sheet to reflect the 
>> changes.
>>   There were few files mainly either FW or UMN licensed which has the 
>> same  copyright header issue described by Julien. I have them modified 
>> but would like to know if I can commit them:
>>
>> classobject.c
>> layerobject.c
>> mapgdal.c(18):
>> mapgraticule.c(21):
>> mapio.c(18):
>> mapio.h(19):
>> mapobject.c(19):
>> mapoutput.c(18):
>> mapraster.c(20):
>> mapresample.h(19):
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Julien-Samuel Lacroix wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Seeing the spreadsheet raised some questions that I think need a consensus.
>>>
>>> I think we agreed on a standard header, but is it somewhere in the wiki? 
>>> Also, files added by me, Assefa and Daniel, have the MS/MIT license 
>>> except for that line:
>>>
>>> DM license:
>>>  * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
>>>  * in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
>>>
>>> MS license:
>>>  * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be 
>>> included in
>>>  * all copies of this Software or works derived from this Software.
>>>
>>> Is it critical? What should we do?
>>>
>>>
>>> Since don't seem to be able to modify the spreadsheet myself here a some 
>>> addition:
>>> I (JSL) was, with Assefa (YA), the primary contributor of mapcontext.c. 
>>> Zak James (ZJ) was the primary contributor of mappdf.c and I think Sacha 
>>> Fournier (SF) contribute the first version of maptemplate.c (I may be 
>>> wrong with that one) for the HTML legend, but he's gone since 2004. The 
>>> header in maptemplate.c does not refer to him probably because the 
>>> header was added by Frank when he added a header to all files.
>>>
>>> What should we do with people that are gone?
>>>
>>> That makes DM Solutions Group the copyright holder of all files 
>>> contributed by me Assefa and Daniel I guess.
>>>
>>> My last question is about the Copyright years. Most files have a year of 
>>>   creation and try to have the year of the last update, but it's not 
>>> up-to-date. Daniel used to update all the files on the first days of 
>>> January, but it's not systematic. Should it be?
>>>
>>> Julien
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Steve Lime wrote:
>>>> Hi all: In case anyone is interested the provenance tracking 
>>>> spreadsheet can be viewed at:
>>>>
>>>>   http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p3ovxbvq1mBuBRaJiIT14eA 
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>>
> 
> 


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