[Incubator] Recommend OTB For Graduation

[Jody Garnett]

Thanks Manuel:

Let me see if I understand, the software guide is generated from OTB source
code, which includes latex files, along with example code which is Apache
v2.

Apache v2 is a software license (it provides permissions that let
developers reuse this source code to make programs, along with a few
conditions).

My question was about a document license.  When writing documents there are
a few things that normal professional writers are able to do with out
getting in trouble like quoting a section of a document, or citing a
document where they got an idea from. Document licenses (like creative
commons) gives authors additional permissions, allowing them to reuse text
in the same way that developers reuse open source.

We ask that OSGeo projects consider a document license for their work, it
helps enable a few communities (for example GeoForAll is focused on
education and they really depend on document licenses to do "open
education" where they share materials the same way we share in "open
source").

*website: *At the bottom of your website it says "Copyright © 2002-2015
CNES. CC By 4.0 Except where otherwise noted, the OTB web pages are
released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License". This is a
document license allowing authors to reuse content from your website, so
long as they indicate where the text came from and provide you credit. This
allows authors to quote your release notes

*cookbook:* At the bottom of your cookbook it says "© Copyright 2017, OTB
Team. Built with Sphinx using a theme provided by Read the Docs.". This
allows users to read the pages, but it does not allow authors to do
anything other than quote and cite the content.


--
Jody Garnett

On 13 June 2017 at 00:54, Manuel Grizonnet <manuel.grizonnet at cnes.fr> wrote:

> Dear incubation committee members,
>
> thank you first to take into consideration the graduation of OTB. To
> answer Jody question related to the project documentation license. OTB got
> 2 main documents which act as reference documentation: the Software Guide
> and the CookBook.
>
> The Software Guide is generated in part from the OTB source code. It can
> build with CMake and includes standalone Latex files as well as algorithms
> descriptions which are parse directly from the OTB source code in C++ (it
> allows to automatically generate figures in the document for instance). All
> the examples used in the SG are located in the Examples
> <https://git.orfeo-toolbox.org/otb.git/tree/HEAD:/Examples> folder in the
> OTB git repository which are licensed under Apache v2. The build mechanism
> and the generation was largely inspired and adapted from the open source
> library ITK which use the same mechanism to build its documentation:
>
> https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITKSoftwareGuide
>
> The CookBook consists of chapters written in RST which include recipes
> which use OTB utilities as well as the reference documentation of OTB
> applications which is also generated from the application source code in
> C++.
>
> The source of all the documentation (Software Guide and CookBook) as well
> as build scripts are all included in the OTB main repository in the
> Documentation folder:
>
> https://git.orfeo-toolbox.org/otb.git/tree/HEAD:/Documentation
>
> Don't hesitate if you've got any questions.
> Best regards,
>
> Manuel
>
>
> Le 08/06/2017 à 06:43, Jody Garnett a écrit :
>
> There is a couple open questions on the checklist, in part because we
> filled it in quickly during the calgis sprint.
>
> 2. Project documentation is available under an open license, such as
> Creative Commons.
>
> *Website is creative commons, could not quite tell what the user guide
> uses.*
>
> *Can we confirm the user guide is creative commons or some kind of
> document license?*
>
>
> I will hold off voting until this one is answered :)
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 7 June 2017 at 17:03, Landon Blake <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This is a motion to recommend OTB for graduation. You can view the
>> graduation checklist here:
>>
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OTB_Graduation_Checklist
>>
>> Manuel and the OTB team have worked hard as part of this process. I will
>> happy to see them cross the finish line!
>>
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