[Marketing] contract review, need to approve and sign .. now?

[Jody Garnett]

Adding Marc's reply here (Marc please don't use digest).

Jody et al
> Had GetInteractive talk just now;
> - they will include scope of work from proposal
> - they will explicitly mention their use of WordPress (very implicit now)
> - their license was not for design elements. It referred to paid (better
> quality) plugins for WP. they will rephrase that funny license-paragraph
> - new version to be send on Monday.
>
> Kind regards,
> Marc Vloemans


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Jody Garnett

On 24 March 2017 at 12:28, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> It was a subtle difference - they were clear we own all work produced
> during the project.
>
> The clarification is needed for prior IP they bring to the party. One of
> the reasons to go with a company that does this for a living is they bring
> IP and experience to the party.
>
> I just want to double check that their IP (even if we have an unlimited
> license) does not end up anywhere in the themes produced; since we intend
> to share them with our sub-brands: geoforall.org, live.osgeo.org, etc...
>
> The specific conflict is live.osgeo.org which is an LGPL project on
> GitHub: https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc
>
> (Cameron can I ask you to stick a LICENSE.txt file on that github :P )
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 24 March 2017 at 12:04, Jeffrey Johnson <ortelius at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This definitely needs to be clarified. OSGeo will *own* all work
>> products generated under this project and it alone has the authority
>> to set the license under which they are distributed. I believe we
>> should use the appropriate cc licenses, but this is our decision as an
>> organization, not the vendors.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:42 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > In case it was not obvious this is my hesitation:
>> >
>> >> - [ ] work prior/seperate to this project --> osgeo gets an unlimited
>> >> license (we need to make sure they understand that the graphical look
>> will
>> >> end up in open source projects and we cannot have a license conflict)
>> >
>> >
>> > We do intend to take generated design and use it across our product
>> line for
>> > projects such as OSGeo Live (which are distributed under an open source
>> > license).
>> >
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>>
>
>
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