[Gvsig_english] Query on why gvSIG CE came about

[Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas]

El 01/07/11 08:36, Simon Cropper escribió:
> 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.
> 

Not really,

Not contributing to the gvSIG project is why CE came about so this is
absolutely "on-topic" I think.


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Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
gvSIG Team at Prodevelop
Technical Collaborations Manager
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