[od-discuss] 2_GGC LB to OKFN advisory council: Conformance check of licence "GeoLicence V1.2.1-Open (mail resent in reduced size)

Wed Jan 28 23:20:21 UTC 2015

Just to check - this is not the OKFN Advisory committee (of which I am a
member) but the Open Definition committee (which I'm also on)...

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Herb Lainchbury <herb at dynamic-solutions.com
> wrote:

> I have been reminded of this unresolved thread from about a year ago and
> would like to bring it back into the discussion.
>
> The answers to our preliminary questions are provided, though the
> questions are slightly different (older versions?).
>
> I have one comment out of the gate.  Question 2 says the license is not
> jurisdiction specific, yet the license refers specifically to German law.
> I would say that IS jurisdiction specific.
>
> I would like to more information for provided for Question 4, which reads:
> "What benefit does the new license bring over already approved
> OD-conformant licenses which would outweigh the costs of license
> proliferation <http://opensource.org/proliferation-report>?"
>
> The response provided does not refer to an already approved OD-conformant
> license.
>
> Thanks,
> Herb
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com>
> wrote:
>
>> (resending to list)
>>
>> On 12/03/2013 06:12 AM, Behrens, Lars wrote:
>> > since I haven’t noticed any discussion or received a reply about this, I
>> > was wondering what the current status of approval is?
>>
>> I don't expect to take a formal approval vote until next year, pending
>> AC consensus on steps we're taking in a revised Open Definition and/or
>> approval processes regarding license proliferation.
>>
>> In the meantime I urge others to review the GeoLicence V1.2.1-Open and
>> ask questions that will be pertinent to the eventual approval vote.
>>
>> All may find links to the text, answers to the basic submission
>> questions, and my initial question about the text at
>> https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/2013-November/000711.html
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
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