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). I'm getting the
impression that the FTP
Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> 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). I
Sebastiaan Couwenberg 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).
On 06-12-15 20:34, Walter Landry wrote:
> Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> 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
>> proje
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 6
Sebastiaan Couwenberg writes:
> OGC has provided George Percivall (CC'ed) as a contact point to
> discuss the OGC license terms, and I hope we can determine the
> appropriate person or team in Debian to fulfil this role on the Debian
> side.
That seems to me a strange way to approach this.
The
Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> In the PyCSW discussion a good argument was made about the OGC Software
> Notice terms not being problematic for Debian, because its terms are
> identical to the W3C licenses and we have files licensed under those
> terms in main:
>
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/
Ben Finney writes:
> Sebastiaan Couwenberg writes:
>
> > 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.
>
>
Sebastiaan Couwenberg writes:
> A recurring problem with geospatial software in the Free Software
> community and Debian in particular has been the terms of the OGC
> Document Notice and Software Notice licenses.
What works are being considered for entry to Debian? What exact grant of
license do
Sebastiaan Couwenberg writes:
> In February 2015 the problematic OGC licenses were discussed on the
> OSGeo standards list [2], because the PyCSW project and its packaging
> was affected by the same issues as TinyOWS [3]. OGC followed that
> discussion and wants "to do whatever possible to ensure
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