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Re: Establishing dialogue between the Debian project and OGC regarding Document & Software Notice terms



Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl> writes:

> Because I've been unable to get feedback from Thorsten Alteholz or any
> of the other FTP masters about this issue, I'm now directing this to
> debian-legal in the hope we can get a dialog going between the Debian
> project and the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium).

Thank you for your dedication to ensuring freedom for software
recipients.

I will make time later today for a better response, but for now:

* This forum, ‘debian-legal’, has no special authority nor special
  qualifications. We are a discussion forum to help the FTPMaster team,
  who *do* have that authority but are limited in their capacity to deal
  with these discussions.

* The response to situations such as you describe is, generally, “choose
  a widely-used, free software license whose conditions are already
  well-understood in the free software community”. Fortunately, this
  doesn't require special authority or qualifications to recommend :-)

-- 
 \         “If history and science have taught us anything, it is that |
  `\     passion and desire are not the same as truth.” —E. O. Wilson, |
_o__)                                              _Consilience_, 1998 |
Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>


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