[foundation-board] Knight grant contract

Wed Dec 7 15:16:41 UTC 2011

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Becky Hogge <becky.hogge at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Well, the contact appears to tie us to a particular licence, so it
seems hard to avoid...

>
> 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
>
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