Eberhard/all,

I just say, they are both committers to DeviceMap and involved with
OpenDDR, but that does not mean either of them are the comitters to the
changes in OpenDDR Resources.

The license for these files is stated to be OdBL (
http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/) while there are 2 misleading
lisense files in GitHub, but AFAIK these came from the template and should
be replaced by the right one (I created a bug ticket on GitHub for that)

The owner on GitHub makes it easier to a) avoid sabotage by e.g. people and
companies wishing to damage OpenDDR (we know who[?]) and allows those with
legitimate access to share this user if necessary, but unless any of the
commits are tied to e.g. a GitHub issue ticket (that's possible, but not
practiced) or similar it is not easy to identify an entire commit or
individual changes within that change and tie it to a user's contribution.
Using Gerrit would be another option, large open source projects and
communities like Eclipse do that, and their IP tracking exceeds even that
of Apache by far[?]

Unless the initial source of the change in GitHub can't participate even if
we had a Gerrit-like system at DeviceMap, I'm afraid 1) is not easy to
accomplish by either of us 3, too.

About 2) hope, Bertrand or Apache legal folks may have an easy answer to
that. I am not a lawyer despite often involved in license-related talks and
discussions especially in the JCP. If OdBL and Apache License are
compatible in the sense, that you could fork it and modify/derive the
content including under a different license?

Werner

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