[Incubator] Recommend OTB For Graduation

Mon Jun 19 10:30:18 PDT 2017

Thanks Manuel. Now that we've cleared up the question on the project
documentation, could we move forward with the graduation motion?

Landon

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 3:08 AM, Manuel Grizonnet <manuel.grizonnet at cnes.fr>
wrote:

> the change request to license the OTB cookbook in creative commons has
> been adopted:
>
> https://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Request_for_
> Changes-94:_CookBook_licensed_under_cc-by-sa
> The CC-BY-SA license will be display on the documentation website in the
> next OTB release.
>
> I've also link to that change request in the "checklist":
>
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OTB_Graduation_Checklist#Copyright_and_License
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Le 17/06/2017 à 06:51, Jody Garnett a écrit :
>
> 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).
>
> --
> 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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>>
>>
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