[Gvsig_english] Query on why gvSIG CE came about

[Simon Cropper]

On 01/07/11 16:27, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote:
> 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.
>
Hey Guys,

This thread has deviated considerably from the original question.

I suggest if people wish to continue the current discussion a new thread 
by created addressing the point the poster wishes to pursue.

-- 
Cheers Simon

    Simon Cropper
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    Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd
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