On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Andy Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Andy Brown<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Rob Weir wrote: >>>> >>>> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 1:06 PM, drew<[email protected]> 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. >
OK. Sorry. It sounds like we have a similar understanding then. Our consent is not needed for them to host the extensions, but only for us to point (or redirect) our URL to their site. > Andy >
