[I think Karsten reposted this because there was a moderation delay on the original message, to which I have already responded on-list. Please use that original thread if possible.]
-K "Reincke, Karsten" <k.rein...@telekom.de> writes: >Deutsche Telekom AG (DTAG) is writing an Open Source License >Compendium, which we intend to be made available to the whole Open >Source community. > >Large (IT) companies are particularily challenged by the quantity of >licenses and their various versions. It is becoming quite expensive >for each company to allocate and train employees as "Open Source >License Experts" in order to ensure that the company acts according to >those Open Source licenses touched by their projects. A better >solution would be to have something like a "compendium" which lists >all relevant usage scenarios, and offers for the major Open Source >licenses something like a to-do list that describes what one has to do >in order to fulfill the license conditions applicable to these usage >scenarios. As far as we know such a reliable compendium doesn't exist >at the moment. > >Following the spirit of Open Source Software, DTAG wants to publish >this compendium under the license 'Creative Commons >Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany'. Moreover, DTAG intends to host >the sources of this compendium on github: we want to follow the rule >publish early, publish often', and to develop this compendium together >with the community. > >As this compendium will serve the Open Source community, and also >perhaps help the Open Source Initiative achieve its goals of promoting >open source usage and bridging the gaps between producers and >consumers of open source software, we would like adopt a logo that >reflects this. As such, we are considering this image: >http://www.oslic.org/fileadmin/images/oslic-logo-315x252.png. We would >like to ask the Open Source Initiative if this would be acceptable to >the organisation. > >We understand that 'Opensource.org site content is licensed under a >Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License'. Hence, deriving something >from the OSI logo can be achieved, and we naturally also want to >respect the OSI Logo Usage Guidelines ( >http://www.opensource.org/logo-usage-guidelines). Our proposed logo >shall express that the OSLiC (Open Source License Compendium) shall >act according to the spirit and intentions of the 'umbrella' Open >Source Initiative > >We look forward to your feedback, and sincerely hope that the proposed >logo is acceptable. Please let us know if this is the case. > >Best Regards >K. Reincke, G. Sharpe, J. Dobson >--- >Deutsche Telekom AG >Products & Innovation >Karsten Reincke, PMP® >Fach-Senior Manager T&P/A&S/TM >T-Online-Allee 1 >64295 Darmstadt >Tel.: +49 6151 680 - 8941 >Fax.: +49 6151 680 - 2529 >E-Mail k.rein...@telekom.de >http://www.telekom.de/ > >Erleben, was verbindet. > >Deutsche Telekom AG >Aufsichtsrat: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Lehner (Vorsitzender) >Vorstand: René Obermann (Vorsitzender), >Dr. Manfred Balz, Reinhard Clemens, Niek Jan van Damme, Timotheus >Höttges, Claudia Nemat, Thomas Sattelberger >Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn HRB 6794 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Bonn >WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE50478376 > >Große Veränderungen fangen klein an - Ressourcen schonen und nicht >jede E-Mail drucken. > >Hinweis: Diese E-Mail und / oder die Anhänge ist / sind vertraulich >und ausschließlich für den bezeichneten Adressaten bestimmt. Jegliche >Durchsicht, Weitergabe oder Kopieren dieser E-Mail ist strengstens >verboten. Wenn Sie diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren >Sie bitte unverzüglich den Absender und vernichten Sie die Nachricht >und alle Anhänge. Vielen Dank. >_______________________________________________ >License-discuss mailing list >License-discuss@opensource.org >http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss