<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Jody,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve been following the discussions on the Board list.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can still remember being trained in MOSS in the mid 80’s. It certainly made an impression on me having then come from a mainly Intergraph IGDS background.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I believe that:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">It is appropriate for OSGeo to be the ‘Home’ for the legacy MOSS IP and artefacts.</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">It will probably require some effort to put this together.</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">From the discussions that I’ve seen so far, I suspect that there is also hardcopy material as well that will need to be archived:</li><ul class=""><li class="">I recall a similar discussion a year or two ago about some legacy GRASS hardcopy materials.</li><li class="">I don’t know that a group of virtual volunteers is necessarily the right forum for preserving these hardcopy artefacts.</li><li class="">Where could they be physically located and preserved?</li><li class="">However, the hardcopy artefacts may be very important as evidence of ‘prior art’, for those organisations and countries that need to deal with ’software patents’.</li></ul></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kind regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bruce</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 7 Oct 2020, at 14:54, Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" class="">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Apparently the source code for the MOSS project, the work of Sol Katz, has been recovered.<div class="">Starting an email thread with respect to providing a "home" for this source code at OSGeo (figured the incubation committee was in the best position to act).<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="" class="">Holding on to inactive projects, is good in terms of IP precedence, and in this case as a historical artifact.<br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The discussion on the board has proposed a "heritage" status, we already have <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Project_Retiring_Process" class="">project retiring process</a>, used for community mapbuilder (see <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/322" class="">#322</a>).</div><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">--</div><div class="">Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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