[PROJ] OSGeo incubation status

Kurt Schwehr schwehr at gmail.com
Mon Sep 9 20:58:58 PDT 2019


Thank you all for the work on the incubation!

Yet another vote for avoiding a CLA.

On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 2:26 PM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> On lundi 9 septembre 2019 21:20:36 CEST Even Rouault wrote:
> > > For other files, "git log" on them and finding the original committer
> > > should be good enough.
> >
> > "git log --follow" to be more exact due to renaming/moving around.
>
> OK, I did the exercice of completing Kristian's initiated source file
> listing
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bdu73lw8I1iFX4cb7CIUF6yqWGDTcZKBfW0cUsEjCXk/edit#gid=0
> Would be worth being double checked of course.
>
> I've followed an "optimistic" principle, that is to say that we don't have
> issues
> unless strong suspicion of the contrary: PROJ has always been released with
> Copyright (c) 2000, Frank Warmerdam as the general license, so I think it
> is the
> reasonable to consider this as the base to use for contributions
> unless they state explicitly something else.
> The general rules I followed in the case there's no explicit header with
> copyright & license are:
> - files coming from initial commit by Frank in 1999 and present in PROJ
> 4.3 are copyright Frank
> - files without explicit header and coming from SVN or git era are
> copyright their author
>   when it can be recovered from the commit message, or otherwise the
> committer (Frank most of the times)
> I've indicated those 2  situations in the remarks column.
>
> There are a few lines underlined in yellow that might require follow up
> actions.
>
> Even
>
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