+1 Angelos
On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 12:04 AM Cameron Shorter <[email protected]> wrote: > Nicholas, > > > There are a number of points here: > > 1. One of the OSGeo incubation criteria is that we ensure that all > contributions to OSGeo are available via our Open Licenses. We achieve that > by ensuring that every person who contributes to OSGeo writes a public > statement saying they agree with our open license, as per: > > https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Source_code > > If we are to comply with our OSGeo Incubation obligations, then we will > need to extend this to Translations. > > How can we ensure that anyone contributing to Transifex is ok with our > open license? Can we get them to send the same email before we give them > access? (I think we are ok if people use an alias or git id instead of > their real name. One of our contributors is called wildintellect, and I > don't know what his/her real name is). > > The importance of ensuring license compliance is because lack of license > compliance can become a barrier to entry for corporations who are scared of > being sued if they use Open Source. > > 2. If someone contributes to our project, it is the right thing for us to > acknowledge them. > > 3. A good measure of OSGeoLive's success is to quote the number of people > who have contributed. Ie, it is good for us to track number of contributors. > > So I suggest: > * Update to note that to contribute, we will be expecting to have your > permission if we are to use your translations. You can see email > conversation last time we were retrospectively chasing down agreements from > people for their Open Source contributions here: > https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/osgeolive/2011-July/thread.html . In > particular: > https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/osgeolive/2011-July/003686.html > > * We could be creative in the way that we confirm commitment to Open > licenses. > > ** Maybe insert a prominent statement in our translation page (ideally > next to the [submit] button) saying "by submitting are are agreeing to make > your content available via our open license policy" and link to our open > policy page. > > ** Request people add their name to our list of contributors page (not > sure how we do that, but we can work out details later) > > Cheers, Cameron > > On 15/9/18 3:25 am, Vicky Vergara wrote: > > Thanks for moving the discussion to the OSGeoLive mailing list. > Regards > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 12:33 AM Nicolas Roelandt <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I asked for a review of an announcement [1] for our contributors and >> translators regarding the new European General Data Protection Regulation >> (GDPR) [2]. >> >> It was not straightforward as I thought and it became a debate. >> >> My mistake was not to publish the link to the draft here, as I wanted to >> avoid mails here about "Fix that, add this, ..." >> >> I was wrong, so please next time, tell me to bring it to the public >> mailing list. >> >> The debate is not settled and was already bring it there. We just >> released 12.0 so I think we can discuss it now and have clear policies. >> >> Best, >> >> Nicolas >> >> [1] https://mensuel.framapad.org/p/osgeolive_contributor_consent_message >> [2] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection_en >> _______________________________________________ >> osgeolive mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive >> > > > -- > > Georepublic UG (haftungsbeschränkt) > Salzmannstraße 44, > 81739 München, Germany > > Vicky Vergara > Operations Research > > eMail: [email protected] > Web: https://georepublic.info > > Tel: +49 (089) 4161 7698-1 > Fax: +49 (089) 4161 7698-9 > > Commercial register: Amtsgericht München, HRB 181428 > CEO: Daniel Kastl > > > > > _______________________________________________ > osgeolive mailing > [email protected]https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive > > > -- > Cameron Shorter > Technology Demystifier > Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant > > M +61 (0) 419 142 254 > > _______________________________________________ > osgeolive mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive > -- Angelos Tzotsos, PhD OSGeo Charter Member http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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