Ok, fair enough. My goal was to make everyone aware of the nastiness surrounding wurfl.xml, and that goal is hereby achieved :)
Now let's concentrate on the IP evaluation process. Here is my +1 for this vote. Andrus On Sep 28, 2012, at 9:25 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org> > wrote: >> Hi Bertrand, >> >> OpenDDR combining forces with DeviceMap is great news! And having the >> resource file will make it very useful immediately. >> >> Regarding this vote.. While the original wurfl.xml was clearly open source, >> and I am going to cast a positive vote to accept it in DeviceMap, I am >> fairly certain that once we do that and start releasing it, we'll hear from >> Scientiamobile trolls. So is Incubator PMC an appropriate body to decide on >> this risk? Should the Board get involved? > > I don't think that the IPMC or the board is interested in a troll > analysis. What we need here, as always, is a grant that satisfies both > the legal grant of a license and the Foundation's requirement for a > clear, voluntary, grant. > >> >> (You are a Board member yourself of course :)) >> >> Andrus >> >> >> On Sep 28, 2012, at 6:21 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> IP clearance usually works by lazy consensus, but in this case I'd >>> like an explicit vote, as the donation described at [0] includes data >>> that when hosted on Github has caused a DMCA takedown request [1] to >>> which OpenDDR responded [2]. >>> >>> I guess from our point of view the decision is whether the donation of >>> that data can be considered voluntary, as the ownership of the >>> original data is somewhat unclear. The header of the original data >>> file [2] states that "the information listed here has been collected >>> by many different people from many different countries", but in [1] a >>> copyright on that data is asserted. >>> >>> The code parts of the OpenDDR donation are not affected, so I'd like >>> Incubator PMC members to vote as follows: >>> >>> [ ] +1, accept the OpenDDR donation including the >>> OpenDDR-Resources_1.0.0.10.zip data >>> [ ] -1, do not accept the OpenDDR-Resources_1.0.0.10.zip (but the >>> other parts are ok) >>> >>> IMO the alternative, if we don't accept the resources part of the >>> donation, is to ask OpenDDR to come up with a resources file that >>> contains only their own original work. >>> >>> The vote is open for at least 72 hours (will leave it open a bit more >>> due to TGIF). >>> >>> -Bertrand (DeviceMap mentor) >>> >>> [0] http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/devicemap-openddr.html >>> [1] >>> https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2012-01-04-scientiamobile.markdown >>> [2] http://openddr.org/takedown.html (looks down right now, Google >>> cache at http://s.apache.org/openddr_cache just in case) >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >>> >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
