At 1:16 PM +1000 on 5/1/99, Adrian Sutton wrote:
>It should be possible to set up a group copyright, just like the
>company MetaCard owns the copyright to MetaCard, not an
>individual within the company (I would assume so anyway). We
>would have to register the OpenCard group officially and I don't
>know what process to go by for that, especially due to the
>international aspects of the OpenCard group.
Umm... two words: "legal mess". We'd need to be incorporated somewhere.
>I think the idea of a leader is quite sound, but we need to determine
>exactly how the group will work before we get too carried away with
>this. The UFP got part way through this process a while back, but
>no vote was ever taken and I'm not sure what happened to the idea.
I think it's sitting on my hard drive and gathering dust.
I believe we already had that decided on OpenCard. Alain was to handle the
collaboration aspects and I was to handle programming ones.
>
>Come to think of it, this appears to be the general context of the
>UFP and OpenCard in general so far. Neither group has actually
>released a product or made a definite decision so far. We've never
>created an infrastructure to use when voting and hence haven't
>voted on anything. This is really quite concerning. OpenCard
>needs to define it's internal structure as soon as possible so that
>we can get some really productive work done.
Dang it, you're right. All talk and no decisions. Well, actually we've had a few:
I think we're using MPW
We're going with my interpreter, not Uli's "Velocity."
UFP was working on some things, but most momentum was taken by OpenCard.
Anyway, I'm putting out a few RFD and maybe a CFV or two. Let's get some of this
official.
