Cool - thanks, Bas! George and I are the key people: he handles architecture and I handle the standards (including licensing issues).
Scott > On Nov 26, 2015, at 12:33 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 26-11-15 19:44, Cameron Shorter wrote: >> Hi Scott, >> Here is where I see this conversation stalling (on this list that I >> follow): >> >> On 24/02/2015 6:00 am, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >>> Hi Scott, >>> >>> On 02/23/2015 05:09 PM, Scott Simmons wrote: >>>> OGC staff have been watching the conversation and we have discussed >>>> internally how we might better meet the needs of this community. >>>> I’ll get our license experts in touch with the FTP Masters this week. >>>> We truly want to do whatever possible to ensure that OGC licensing is >>>> not a hurdle! >>> Thanks for your willingness to join the discussion with the Debian FTP >>> masters! >>> >>> Please keep the OSGeo Standards and Debian GIS lists in the loop. >>> >>> Kind Regards, >>> >>> Bas >>> >> >> It sounds like it might be worth revisiting, and potentially drawing >> upon relationships we have within OSGeo, UbuntuGIS and DebianGIS to see >> if we can escalate. > > I've contacted the FTP master in question today, see: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-gis/2015/11/msg00038.html > <https://lists.debian.org/debian-gis/2015/11/msg00038.html> > > If I also don't get a reply from any of the FTP masters on that, I can > try to get the discussion going on the debian-legal list, ask advice > from the technical committee, or DPL (project leader). So there are some > more options available. > >> I suspect Bas might be able to call on a favour or two, or we might be >> able to call upon the OSGeo Board to reach out. >> >> Who are the people within OGC to talk with about this? > > George Percivall was previously recommended: > > https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/standards/2015-February/000847.html > <https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/standards/2015-February/000847.html> > >> On 26/11/2015 11:13 pm, Scott Simmons wrote: >>> Bas, >>> >>> We never heard back from the Debian folks on issues with OGC license >>> terms. I would love to engage them, but admit that I am at a loss as >>> to how to progress! >>> >>> Best Regards. >>> Scott >>> >>> Scott Simmons >>> Executive Director, Standards Program >>> Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) >>> tel +1 970 682 1922 >>> mob +1 970 214 9467 >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >>> >>> The OGC: Making Location Count… >>> www.opengeospatial.org <http://www.opengeospatial.org/> >>> <http://www.opengeospatial.org <http://www.opengeospatial.org/>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Nov 26, 2015, at 12:44 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >>>> >>>> On 26-11-15 06:56, Cameron Shorter wrote: >>>>> The OGC has technical and planning committee meetings in Sydney (my >>>>> home >>>>> town), next week, 30 Nov - 4 Dec 2016. >>>>> http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1512tc >>>>> <http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1512tc> >>>>> >>>>> I'm hoping to bump into some of the OGC attendees while in town. (In >>>>> particular there is a GeoRabble event I will be at). >>>>> >>>>> It might also be a good chance to talk about any OSGeo/OGC >>>>> collaboration. >>>>> >>>>> In particular, is the OGC interested in including the TEAM >>>>> certification >>>>> engine on OSGeo-Live? We have just kicked of the build process for >>>>> our next >>>>> release, and now would be an opportune time to discuss including the >>>>> application. >>>>> >>>>> Also, we have previously discussed integrating OGC Standards >>>>> documentation >>>>> with OSGeo-Live documentation. Is the development of documentation >>>>> of OGC >>>>> standards still progressing? >>>>> It might be a good chance to discuss that too. >>>> >>>> If the OGC documentation is licensed under the terms of the OGC Document >>>> Notice this is problematic due to the non-free nature of the license. >>>> >>>> I'd like to know if OGC has been able to get in touch with the Debian >>>> project to discuss the issues with the OGC Document & Software notices. >>>> There hasn't been any public progress since this was last discussed on >>>> this list ('OGC XML schemas and FOSS4G software distribution' thread). > > Kind Regards, > > Bas > > -- > GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 > Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1
