[od-discuss] UK OGL Compliant?

Wed Feb 15 10:27:21 UTC 2012

On 13 February 2012 21:56, Mike Linksvayer <ml at creativecommons.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Herb Lainchbury
> <herb at dynamic-solutions.com> wrote:
>> Hi Folks.  How do we move forward on this?   Is there a board that needs to
>> vote?

It's the Advisory Panel of the Open Definition, see:
<http://opendefinition.org/licenses/process/>

> I don't know about final approval, which I imagine might be the OKFN
> board, but there is an Open Definition advisory group that I think
> I've cc'd here and obviously should be consulted (but it may be
> everyone is on both lists) -- for context see this subject in
> Dec/Jan/Feb od-discuss archives
> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/

Yes, that's right and see above. I'd like to suggest we start (a
regular) OD phone con / skype which can be a focal point for final
decisions on these types of issues. If this sounds good I, or my
colleague Daniel (in cc), can boot a doodle poll for a suitable date.

> Also it makes sense to have a feedback period, reaching out to, at the
> least I'd think
>
> - Stewards/communities of neighboring definitions (OSI, FSF, Debian,
> Freedom Defined)
> - Stewards/communities of OD-compliant licenses
> - Some OKF sub-communities/projects/lists that would be interested
>
> Rufus did mention in
> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/2012-January/000100.html
> having some kind of license review meeting, which I think could
> conclude in need for definition clarification, or just start with
> that. I haven't seen a followup yet.

See above. I think this is definitely required (perhaps aim for quarterly).

>> Mike, I think that putting it in git is a great idea.  I wonder if a
>> markdown version of the license might be a better way to capture content
>
> s/license/definition/ :)

I think this is a great idea. BTW, i've just done a big overhaul of:

<http://licenses.opendefinition.org/>

There's an associated repo here:

<https://github.com/okfn/licenses>

We could perhaps start a 'texts/' directory for the actual texts of
licenses (when we first booted the licenses 'repo' and service 2y ago
we'd wanted to be cautious about duplicating but a versionable repo of
open licenses would be really useful.

>> diffs?  That way the styles are independent of the content and it's easy to
>> see what's changed.
>
> I assumed it was being kept in HTML in WordPress, but if a markdown
> version is available/being used with a markdown plugin to publish,
> clearly that would be better.

We definitely want plain text / markdown. That's actually how we keep
the Open Data Commons licenses in source form.

Rufus

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