Thank you for the replies, Walter and Ben. George and I are both currently in Australia/New Zealand, but will discuss these messages when we get to a common location on Tuesday!
Best Regards, Scott Scott Simmons Executive Director, Standards Program Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) tel +1 970 682 1922 mob +1 970 214 9467 ssimm...@opengeospatial.org <mailto:ssimm...@opengeospatial.org> The OGC: Making Location Count… www.opengeospatial.org <http://www.opengeospatial.org/> > On Dec 6, 2015, at 12:47 PM, Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebas...@xs4all.nl> writes: > >> Because I've been unable to get feedback from Thorsten Alteholz or any >> of the other FTP masters about this issue, I'm now directing this to >> debian-legal in the hope we can get a dialog going between the Debian >> project and the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium). > > Thank you for your dedication to ensuring freedom for software > recipients. > > I will make time later today for a better response, but for now: > > * This forum, ‘debian-legal’, has no special authority nor special > qualifications. We are a discussion forum to help the FTPMaster team, > who *do* have that authority but are limited in their capacity to deal > with these discussions. > > * The response to situations such as you describe is, generally, “choose > a widely-used, free software license whose conditions are already > well-understood in the free software community”. Fortunately, this > doesn't require special authority or qualifications to recommend :-) > > -- > \ “If history and science have taught us anything, it is that | > `\ passion and desire are not the same as truth.” —E. O. Wilson, | > _o__) _Consilience_, 1998 | > Ben Finney <b...@benfinney.id.au>
