[OSGeo-Board] Bylaws posted

[Arnulf Christl]

Gary Lang wrote:
> This is a great discussion.
> 
> My $0.02.
> 
> If it turns out to be really necessary, developing an OSGeo-authored
> license for data could be a good thing for the foundation to sponsor and
> accomplish. If not, using an existing license would be good karma as
> well.
> 
> Either way, I feel that if we aren't successful with this, we're
> probably not going to be successful on some other level with this
> adventure.
> 
> Can someone summarize the "why" of the PGL?
>  
> Gary 

Probably this would best be done by Jo Walsh, Markus Neteler and the 
Public Geodata Committee. I would suggest to additionally invite Daniel 
Faivre to this committe as he is active promoter of the PGL.

Best regards,
Arnulf.

PS:
Jo, Daniel, you might not be able to reply to this board address as it 
is a closed list, but I am sure that Markus Neteler will be in contact 
with you anyway.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arnulf Christl (CCGIS) [mailto:arnulf.christl at ccgis.de] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:15 PM
> To: board at board.osgeo.org
> Cc: board at board.osgeo.org
> Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Board] Bylaws posted
> 
> [...]
> 
>>"article I: talks only about software and OSI licenses, do we want to 
>>mention data/education as well (CC licenses etc)?"
>>
>>The mission statement at the beginning of article I does refer to data
> 
> 
>>and broadly refers to the advancement of open geospatial, so I think 
>>that would pick up education initiatives as well ("The purposes of the
> 
> 
>>corporation are to establish and support a diverse open source 
>>community to foster the development, advancement and promotion of open
> 
> 
>>geospatial software technology and data").  I haven't given any 
>>thought to whether the bylaws would/should require the use of a 
>>particular license for data.  Certainly with software it is easy to 
>>look to the OSI.  Is there a similar certifying body for data/content 
>>licenses?  I'm familiar with CC, but do we want to state definitively 
>>in the bylaws that things must be licensed under CC?
> 
> 
> Spatial data is somewhat special in this respect. I talked to Jimmy
> Wales Richard Stallman they think GNU FDL is good. Ward Cunningham is
> into CC, and says its cool for spatial data too obviously.
> 
> I am not sure though. Daniel Faivre (camptocamp) is very actively
> promoting a license specially designed to fit spatial data backed by an
> active Canadian group, they call it PGL. I believe Jo has something up
> the sleeve too and OSM is also thinking in this line. All of them are
> highly interested in the OSGeo (well, dunno about OSM, they are sort of
> sleepy) and it might happen that the Foundation itself will be the body
> creating this special license. In the end this is one of the things that
> we came together to do here. What I want to say is that we do not have
> to choose from different licenses but maybe set out to create one.
> 
> Best regards,
> Arnulf.
> 
> --
> Arnulf Christl
> http://www.ccgis.de
> 
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