[iks-community] IKS Community Agreement for good governance

[John Pereira]

Hello
all,

A first draft of the IKS Community Agreement is now online http://wiki.iks-project.eu/index.php/Communitypolicy 
.
Please note that this is a working version still under discussion.

Overview

The IKS Community is formed by those companies and individuals who  
express their interest in contributing to the IKS project and who  
subsequently do contribute to the project in one of the ways defined  
in the IKS Community Agreement. The IKS Community acts as stakeholder  
and communal contributor to the development of IKS specifications,  
methodology and any implementations of the Interactive Knowledge  
Stack. The contributions of members of the IKS Community are regulated  
by the IKS Community Agreement.

The Community Agreement consists of the following parts:
• Contribution Assignment: The agreement used by contributors to share  
copyright on their contributions with Salzburg Research. The agreement  
also covers some key patent issues. The agreement is supported with an  
FAQ for contributors, a process for receiving and archiving signed  
agreements, and resources to support legal review.
• Licensing Recommendations for Content: Recommendations for why the  
IKS project should use the Creative Commons Attribution licence for  
most of the content that the project produces.
• Licensing for Software: Recommendations for why the IKS project  
should licence project content under the Simplified BSD licence.
• Privacy Policy for Websites: This document tells site visitors how  
the IKS project collects and uses the data that the IKS websites  
gather from them. The policy is supported with a usage guide to help  
Salzburg Research and IKS project participants avoid violating the  
privacy policy.
• Legal Disclaimer and Limitations for the Websites: This document  
tells visitors what risks they may encounter on the IKS websites,  
notes that Salzburg Research and the IKS participants accept as little  
liability as possible for risks encountered.
• Site Licensing Policy: This document outlines what content is and is  
not licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence and what  
terms contributors to the website must licence their contributions.

The agreement is currently under discussion and review by Salzburg  
Research's legal counsel and by the IKS consortium partners. You can  
join in the discussion by replying to this discussion thread in the  
IKS Community mailing list.

Best Regards

-- 
John Pereira
Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft
Information Society Research
Jakob-Haringer Strasse 5/II
5020 Salzburg
Austria

email   john.pereira at salzburgresearch.at
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