This intellectual property violation policy outlines how the MapLibre Organization plans to react in case a person should commit a copyright infringement.
Violator: A person who violated intellectual property rights by committing illegally copied code to the MapLibre codebase.
Should we detect a copyright infringement, our reaction will be the following:
- Contact Open Source Collective, MapLibre's fiscal host, and inform them that illegally copied code was detected in the MapLibre codebase.
- Contact the owner of the intellectual property and inform them that illegally copied code was detected in the MapLibre codebase.
- Contact the violator and inform them of the consequences of their action.
- The action against the violator shall be to do the following for up to 3 months in case of a first infringement and up to 2 years in case of repeated infringement:
- Block the violator from any interaction with the MapLibre community on GitHub, i.e. they are not allowed to open or participate in any pull requests, issues, or discussions.
- Block the violator from participating in the Technical Steering Committee meetings.
- Make a public statement that illegally copied code was detected in the MapLibre codebase and communicate what the next steps will be, link to this policy.
- Start a public and transparent process of how we plan to remove the illegally copied code from the MapLibre codebase and inform all involved parties on a regular basis about the progress.