[iks-community] help on choosing a license

[Sandro Groganz]

Stéphane Croisier wrote:
> Personally I do not have any issue to grant some rights directly to the 
> Salzburg University which could act as the underlying "Foundation". But 
> if some academics or industrial partners prefer to create another 
> distinct Foundation or Association on the model of the Apache one (a 
> kind of Semantic Foundation which would host all sub-semantic 
> initiatives with a kind of long term oriented meritocracy and some 
> ambitions to create a long term community which will long further than 
> the 4 years of the initial UE project), I think this could be great.
> 
> But this could also perfectly done in a second phase as rapidly opening 
> new Apache Sandboxes in a first phase (such as the new Apache Chemistry 
> <http://incubator.apache.org/chemistry/> project for CMIS) might 
> initially provide a better leverage on existing community of developers, 
> ensure a certain level of "trust" for such projects and help create a 
> marketing momentum around them (Apache is better known than IKS for the 
> moment ;-) ).

Some more options for consideration:

- Assign copyright to Free Software Foundation.
- Make IKS an Eclipse Project.

Sandro