[Gvsig_english] Query on why gvSIG CE came about

[Francisco José Peñarrubia]

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.

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.


>> A quick search:
>> OpenLayers CLA
> ok. GRASS, QGIS are not mentioned, but still. Ok.
>
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> Best
> Wolfgang
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