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InVEST®: models that map and value the goods and services from nature that sustain and fulfill human life.

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Create an InVEST Contributor License Agreement #1593

Open phargogh opened 5 months ago

phargogh commented 5 months ago

After some discussions with Stanford's OTL and with the NatCap software team, we have settled on a contributor license agreement that:

clarifies that a person has the right to contribute changes to the project
grants NatCap the ability to release derivative and collective works under a different license in the future, provided approval of NatCap leadership.

There is also the nifty open-source project https://github.com/apps/cla-bot that can help automate the verification of CLAs during pull requests.

Here's the overall sequence I think we should implement:

[x] make public the CLA, having interested folks email our new legal address with their assent
[x] Improve the form so that verification is stored in a known place
[ ] Integrate the CLA-bot in the InVEST and InvEST UG repos to automate checking of CLA signatures

phargogh commented 3 months ago

We now have a (private) repository at https://github.com/natcap/invest-cla, where a github pages deployment redirects to the AWS-hosted signing application. We have not yet integrated the CLA-bot into appropriate repositories.