[OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at Geography Awareness Week

[Christian Willmes]

Brian,


I would second Barends claim, that this can not be considered as open.


For me this looks like the following:


1. Someone claims intellectual property rights on some formalized idea.


2. This someone now promotes and sells this idea for a fee.


Please help me on how this approach can be considered as open? Hint [1], 
[2].


Thanks,

Christian


[1] http://opendefinition.org/

[2] 
https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt


Am 16.08.2016 um 21:29 schrieb Brian M Hamlin:
>
> Dear Colleagues -
>
>   I strongly object to this statement..
>
> " ... t this system can NOT be considered OPEN in the usual definition 
> and is therefore not something OSGEO shoudl be involved with... "
>
>   There are numerous references to cite here..  details on request
>
> best regards from Berkeley, California
>
>   --Brian M Hamlin   PSC OSGeo-Live, California Chapter
>
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>
> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 08:46:38 +0000
> From: <b.j.kobben at utwente.nl>
> To: <volksnav at volksnav.de>, <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>,
> <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>, <Standards at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geo4All - Empowering academics and
> educators globally - requesting colleagues to share Geo4All ideas at
> Geography Awareness Week
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> Quote: " The license fee for educational purposes is symbolically EUR 
> 1,- "
>
> This implies there is also a (higher?) non-educational fee, and also 
> means IMHO that this system can NOT be considered OPEN in the usual 
> definition and is therefore not something OSGEO shoudl be involved with...
>
> Yours,
>
> --
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