Rob Weir wrote:
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Andy Brown<a...@the-martin-byrd.net> wrote:
Rob Weir wrote:
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 1:06 PM, drew<d...@baseanswers.com> wrote:
[from out of left field]
Would members consider transferring ownership of the current repository
hosted on the OSUOSL server to a third party, perhaps created
specifically to take this over, and then working with them to create the
indirect reference site under the AOO project, filtering out
un-acceptably licensed items as a way to achieving option #2. This would
move the entire repository without needing to locate individual authors.
I don't see how we can claim ownership of the content on the OSUOSL
server. It was not part of the Oracle SGA, as far as I know. So it
is not ours to give to a 3rd party.
Considering the fact that the URLs are part of service.openoffice.org and
AOOo will be getting the domains as part of the SGA, then it would seem that
we own them, at least the name. So the domain could be hosted any where
that the PPMC see fit, even at OSUOSL.
That logic doesn't follow. Hypothetically there could be legacy
OpenOffice.org URL's that contain Lady Gaga rips. That doesn't mean
we have ownership of the music.
We own the URL. We control what the URL points to. But that doesn't
mean we own what the URL points to.
Please read all that I wrote, "at least the name. So the domain could
be hosted any where that the PPMC see fit." I agree that we may not own
the content but if a 3rd party wished to host them the PPMC could give
its consent to do so and have the URLs point to that IP address.
Andy
