On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Rufus Pollock<[email protected]> wrote: > * We strive to be more like Apache than FSF
Apache is not into copyleft. Ok, I realize this isn't the sense you mean. :) > (I hope i'm not offending > anyone with this analogy!): i.e. a community built around a network of > projects (and working groups) joined by shared understanding of > openness (and its value) -- as opposed to something centrally driven > and organized (and very strongly committed to a particular > philosophy). > > * A clear espousal of openness with explicit application across a > variety of domains (so not just content, not just data -- genes to > geodata, sonnets to statistics ...). Many other groups/orgs are > focused on one particular thing (e.g. openlibrary) The Apache umbrella analogy for OKF really helps me understand what the OKF is and/or is trying to be, more than anything I've ever read before -- I've never really understood exactly how all of the projects I see mentioned in relation to the OKF hang together other than "very loosely" but ASF-like makes that answer make sense to me. Mike _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
