[OSGeo-Standards] Does OSGeo really "understand" OGC?

Sebastiaan Couwenberg sebastic at xs4all.nl
Thu Jan 16 10:12:14 PST 2025


On 1/16/25 6:54 PM, Howard Butler via Standards wrote:
> The first thing is specifications should be licensed in such a way that does not allow modifications (cc by-nd, etc), and that licensing should only be changed to allow specific standardization activities with the permission of all contributors.

But then don't include those specifications in your project source tree and/or release tarballs, as those terms are not OSD/DFSG compliant.

Limiting modification of standards makes sense, but that's incompatible with open source where the the right to make unrestricted modifications is essential.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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