[Gvsig_english] Query on why gvSIG CE came about

[Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas]

El 30/06/11 22:05, Wolfgang Qual escribió:
> 
>> I'm not neglecting his contributions and previous work. He has been a
>> great power user and brought here a lot of nice discussions and some
>> good contributions.
> 
> ....and I do hope (and belive) that he will continue doing that
> 
>> I'm sorry if I take that to a personal side, I beg your pardon. But I
>> won't be quiet to any direct and (in my opinion) unfair criticism to the
>> way we are managing and boosting gvSIG project.
> 
> I understand your position. But I am sure that Ben (and the rest of the new
> initiative) have their reasons for their decision.
> I would be glad, if this discussion (in the end) could lead to a
> clarfication. 

oh yes, me too.

> 
> 
>> And what about the other FOSS GIS applications (QGIS, GRASS, OpenJump
>> etc).
>> Do they have a CLA? What does a CLA implict? Ben mentioned that it was
>> hard
>> for him to get his changes into the official project. Why was it that
>> hard?
>> Is it still that way? Is it that hard for "external" contributors to join
>> in
>> the programming / developing of gvSIG?
> 
>> A quick search:
>> OpenLayers CLA
> ok. GRASS, QGIS are not mentioned, but still. Ok. 

not mentioning them is not the same than not having it. I did a quick
search and posted the examples I had at hand. A worth text explanation
also about CLA is at:

http://producingoss.com/en/producingoss.html#copyright-assignment-cla

Cheers

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Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
gvSIG Team at Prodevelop
Technical Collaborations Manager
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