[Board] Board Meeting July first

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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christopher.schmidt at nokia.com wrote:
> On Jun 28, 2010, at 9:26 AM, ext Howard Butler wrote:
>> "For example, OpenLayers moved from Metacarta to Nokia, and Metacarta and Nokia have quite different ideas about the meaning of the OpenLayers Copyright." 
>>
>> 1) what does this mean?
>> 2) how does it have any bearing on this paper?
>> 3) The *license* of OpenLayers makes Nokia's ideas about open source moot
> 
> Also, how is this even true? What evidence is it based on? Who came up with
> that information?
> 
> It seems like a complete mischaracterization of the facts, even if it *was*
> relevant. 
> 
> Nokia is an active and public supporter of Open Source, hosting and 
> participating in dozens, if not hundreds, of Open Source projects, and
> supporting two foundations/organizing groups -- Symbian and Maemo -- 
> centered entirely around Open Source.
> 
> Anyone who claims that Nokia is not supportive of Open Source is nuts;
> anyone who thinks that there has been any change in the state of 
> OpenLayers copyright must be getting information from somewhere that I'm
> not aware of; I'd love to know who these people are talking to, because
> certainly, no one has told *me* of any change in the way OpenLayers 
> copyright is handled.
> 
> Regards,

Chris,
thanks for this solid demonstration of support for Open Source by Nokia.
Maybe it is worth a blog or note somewhere to help disperse any other
notions that might have emerged elsewhere.

It is a valid question to ask what happens to an Open Source project
when its owner changes. Along the same line: What exactly does it mean
for an Open Source project to be "owned"? (lots of mushy arguments
floating around this questions and OSGeo does not have a good answer
either). Maybe it is also a good time to restart thinking about
copyright ownership and trademarks wrt Open Source projects. OSGeo is
still pretty much without a policy.

Regards,
Arnulf.

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http://arnulf.us
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