[Gvsig_english] Query on why gvSIG CE came about
Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
jsanz at gvsig.com
Fri Jul 1 08:27:20 CEST 2011
El 30/06/11 22:34, Francisco José Peñarrubia escribió:
> Hi all.
>
> About CLA, I've been searching other projects, and they have something
> like this.... but:
>
> 1.- gvSIG CLA was meant to protect the project and intellectual property
> rights of the contributors. I mean, our CLA states that gvSIG will
> always have a GPL license or simillar (v2, v3). And the contributor will
> still have the intellectual property rights.
>
> 2.- I thought it was something asked to pass OSGEO incubation process.
> But now, it seems is NOT needed anymore (although desirable):
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Contributor_Agreement
>
> 3.- I don't see any problem to sign the CLA, my company will sign it if
> needed... but honestly, I don't care, and I am curious about the reasons
> to not sign it.
That's the point Fran, CLAs are a common procedure and normally no one
complains about that.
Don't signing it is (I assume) because they don't trust the gvSIG
Association as a copyright holder, even when it's stated that gvSIG
products will be open source forever.
So yes, a clarification about why Ben doesn't want to sign it (I want to
remember no other CE contributor has said nothing about this).
>
> As far as I know, the only reason CLA may be important is if we have to
> change the license any time in the future. For example, some MIT
> licenses in several Apache projects require a GPL v3 license instead of
> GPL v2. Or in some countries (France, for example, GPL is not acepted by
> law, and they have a modified GPL. This is the reason why Europa has its
> own GPL flavor:
> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/europe-gets-its-own-gpl/3768
>
> Hope it helps.... or not ;-)
>
> Cheers.
>
> Fran.
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Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
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