[foundation-board] Knight grant contract

[Becky Hogge]

On 7 December 2011 14:34, Ben Laurie <ben at links.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Martin Keegan <martin at no.ucant.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 25 Nov 2011, Martin Keegan wrote:
>>
>>> > >From this contract, it looks like the latter (from the final para "The
>>> > $15,000 cost of the fiscal agency will come out of grant funds and has
>>> > been added to the grant amount." Total grant is for $265,000). I'm
>>>
>>> That's correct.
>>
>> [replying to myself here].
>>
>>> > happy for OKF to sign this, subject to satisfactory explanation of
>>> > browser plugin issue James has raised.
>>>
>>> The terms "browser plugin" and "embeddable widgets" result from a few
>>> rounds of redrafting. I've spoken to and written to Knight to get them to
>>> include a reference to this in the side letter, acknowledging how the
>>> terms should fit together.
>>
>> Ok. I sought clarification from Knight about the paperwork and amiguities.
>>
>> They've sent a side letter permitting the use of our preferred licence and
>> interpretation of the terminology above; I've attached this.
>
> Well, this prompts me to raise the question again: why is the AGPL our
> preferred licence? Would they be happy with a BSD or Apache licence?

Can we continue this discussion on a separate mail thread or at next
week's Board meeting? I found the discussion you prompted on this on
the email labelled "CKAN licence" very helpful, but I don't think it's
useful to divert a discussion about contracts into one about licences.

I'm hoping Jason will put up and agenda page on the Board wiki soon so
we can start listing items we want to discuss at the meeting.

Cheers

Becky