[Incubator] Recommend OTB For Graduation

[Jody Garnett]

Thanks, If you want to link to that change request in the "checklist" we
can proceed with the motion (I am content if it is being worked on).

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Jody Garnett

On 15 June 2017 at 08:35, Manuel Grizonnet <manuel.grizonnet at cnes.fr> wrote:

> Thanks Jody.
>
> We've discussed this also last week during the OTb User Days. I've written
> today a request for changes to license the OTB cookbook under cc-by-sa.
> I'll let you know when it's done.
>
> Manuel
>
>
>
> Le 13/06/2017 à 21:20, Jody Garnett a écrit :
>
> 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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>> Manuel GRIZONNET
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