[Thuban-list] tests for Daniel Cavelo's classifiers

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 09:21:52PM -0500, Daniel Calvelo Aros wrote:
> From: Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de>
> >
> > Daniel: Would it be okay for you to assign the copyrights to us?
> > Our idea is to keep them all in one place.
> 
> I thought I added myname to the "Authors:" part of the comment header...

I did see that in one file.
The new files in Moritz' set did not include headers at all.

> Anyway:
> 
> I hereby transfer my intellectual property rights on the work made so far, in
> favor of Intevation GmbH. A long time ago you (or maybe Jan) sent me an FSFE
> form for that, but I can't find it.

Thanks a lot!

> BTW, are you thinking about transferring all copyrights to FSF or FSFE at some
> point in time or are you planning on keeping Intevation as copyright holder?

This depends on how partical the FLA procedures will be.
In principle we would like to transfer it, if this is easy enough.
Currently it is not easy enough.

> Since this is all GPL-covered work, there is no problem wrt further
> development, derivatives and the like, but it is legally sound to have a
> unique copyright holder, and it being the FSF(E) might be even more
> interesting in any litigation case.

Yes!

The only thing that could happen to Thuban is a potential move to GNU LGPL
for the sake of users that need to connect to proprietary formats 
or GIS products. So far we did not seem that to be necessary,
but that might change in the future.

	Bernhard
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