[Gvsig_english] Query on why gvSIG CE came about

[Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas]

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
gvSIG Team at Prodevelop
Technical Collaborations Manager
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