[tei-council] Fwd: [tei-board] licensing issues

[Sebastian Rahtz]

I am with Martin here. A very simple license across the board seems the only sustainable way forward.

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On 28 Sep 2011, at 16:07, "Martin Holmes" <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:

> I must admit I don't really understand the reasoning here. Schemas can 
> be derived from ODDs, and ODDs (presumably) from schemas; documentation 
> is tied directly into schemas by the generation process, and the 
> Guidelines consist of documentation knitted together with explanatory 
> prose. The whole seems to me to be inextricably tangled, which is as it 
> should be, and I see no reason why some parts should be licensed 
> differently from others.
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
> 
> On 11-09-28 07:03 AM, Piotr Bański wrote:
>> In general, I believe that a single license for code, schemas and their
>> documentation would be a real blunder. Documentation under LGPL? Please...
>> 
>> I attempted to present my reasoning in this e-mail:
>> 
>> http://lists.village.virginia.edu/pipermail/tei-council/2011/013670.html
>> 
>> It may be stupid, of course, but I'd rather shove it in front of your
>> eyes now and wait to be told so than have a feeling that we may be
>> missing something important.
>> 
>> best,
>> 
>>   P.
>> 
>> On 28/09/11 15:34, Laurent Romary wrote:
>>> You guys are always so quick.... I was stuck in the middle of the river not understanding why CC-By, which is what is aimed at with BSD is incompatible with GPL (in a context where we seem not to care about GPL). Should not we make a recommendation along principles and make explicit that CC-BY and BSD are two options, and let the board finalize. Or should we vote on one or the other?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Le 28 sept. 2011 à 14:55, Martin Holmes a écrit :
>>> 
>>>> So this is the proposal:
>>>> 
>>>> The TEI Guidelines, including schemas or documentation generated from
>>>> them, associated processing tools and stylesheets, exemplars, and test
>>>> files, should be released under a 2-clause BSD license.
>>>> 
>>>> (The 2-clause license is the "Simplified BSD License" or "FreeBSD License".)
>>>> 
>>>> I vote in favour.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Martin
>>>> 
>>>> On 11-09-28 05:25 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 28 Sep 2011, at 13:12, Lou Burnard wrote:
>>>>>>> so which of you three were going to convey this to Council, I wonder? never mind.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm not sure who "you three" are, but I'm guessing it's Laurent's job
>>>>>> formally to convey Board decisions to the Council
>>>>> 
>>>>> the chair of the Board also sits, ex officio, on the Council.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> "all TEI stuff which the Consortium produces" is a rather vague concept.
>>>>> 
>>>>> it is. sorry
>>>>> 
>>>>>> In particular it cannot apply prospectively surely? If (perhaps as a
>>>>>> result of the ongoing futures debate) the Consortium gets into some
>>>>>> other line of business -- say developing courseware -- it might want to
>>>>>> licence such activities differently.
>>>>> true.
>>>>> 
>>>>> s/TEI stuff/The TEI Guidelines, including schemas or documentation generated from them, associated processing tools and stylesheets, exemplars, and test files/
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I think the proposal needs to be rather more precisely formulated before
>>>>>> it can be voted on,
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> see above. is there a category you have in mind to _exclude_, apart from courseware?
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Stormageddon Rahtz
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>>>>> Oxford University Computing Services
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>>>>> 
>>>>> Sólo le pido a Dios
>>>>> que el futuro no me sea indiferente
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