Brian,
I would second Barends claim, that this can not be considered as open.
For me this looks like the following:
1. Someone claims intellectual property rights on some formalized idea.
2. This someone now promotes and sells this idea for a fee.
Please help me on how this approach can be considered as open? Hint [1],
[2].
Thanks,
Christian
[1] http://opendefinition.org/
[2]
https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt
Am 16.08.2016 um 21:29 schrieb Brian M Hamlin:
Dear Colleagues -
I strongly object to this statement..
" ... t this system can NOT be considered OPEN in the usual definition
and is therefore not something OSGEO shoudl be involved with... "
There are numerous references to cite here.. details on request
best regards from Berkeley, California
--Brian M Hamlin PSC OSGeo-Live, California Chapter
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Quote: " The license fee for educational purposes is symbolically EUR
1,- "
This implies there is also a (higher?) non-educational fee, and also
means IMHO that this system can NOT be considered OPEN in the usual
definition and is therefore not something OSGEO shoudl be involved with...
Yours,
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