[od-discuss] OKD questions from 2010

Thu Feb 14 17:50:30 UTC 2013

On 14 February 2013 16:31, Luis Villa <luis at tieguy.org> wrote:
> Sorry for lag, I've been on vacation.
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com> wrote:
>>
>> (one word change highlighted)
>>
>> I do think reaching out to OSI again for feedback would make sense
>> before releasing a new OKD version, but I'll leave guidance on that to
>> Luis Villa.
>
> This is the first I've heard about it :) I'm happy to raise the issue
> with the board and with the licensing mailing lists. [I'm a board
> member and chair of the relevant committee, so I make sense to be the
> conduit- no need to go to Simon.]
>
> I'm not sure it makes sense for OSI to "adopt" OKD, as OSI doesn't (in
> my experience) have any mechanism or reason to *apply* the OKD, which
> (to me) is implied by adoption.

I think "adopt" is a misnomer. I think a better term might be
"endorse" or "recommend" in the context of data and content ...

> But perhaps something like a formal endorsement ("OSI supports and
> endorses use of the OKD when evaluating the openness of data...") and
> a link from the OSI website? Other suggestions about what adoption
> might mean/imply welcome, of course.

That seems a pretty good suggestion for what this would concretely mean :-)

Rufus