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
