[iks-community] IKS Community Agreement for good governance

[Stéphane Croisier]

According to what I understand and if I followed 
correcly the presentation from Bertrand 
(http://dev.day.com/microsling/content/blogs/main/iks-pragmatic-view-update.html), 
it looks like IKS will adopt a kind of "Open Core" approach aka:
- a free, open source IKS semantic framework 
released under a permissive license
- some open source, commercial or hybrid semantic 
plug-ins developed either by IKS,  by the community or by any semantic vendors

I must say I really like such an approach as this 
will let anyone add some (commercial/open source) 
plugs on top of a common semantic baseplate. But 
in order to gain fast adoption in the industry such a baseplate needs to be:
- release under an open source license which 
could be as permissive and business friendly as possible
- leverage an existing well-known foundation to 
rapidly gain visibility and market shares

ASFAIC the "semantic intelligence" will mostly be 
located in those "LEGO plugs" and not in the 
common infrastructure layer. So if such a common 
baseplate could be generic enough it could serve 
as a basis both for companies such as 
Salsadev/Zemanta to make available their own 
commercial plugs or for the open source community 
to make their "plugs" available on the web site 
they want with the OS license they prefer.

BTW: there was an interesting blog posts by 
Mathew Aslett from 451 group on Open Core and the Losing Control attitude:
http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/10/05/three-options-for-the-future-of-open-core-licesing/
http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/10/16/out-of-control/
http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/10/21/losing-control/

So perhaps clarifying the "open core" approach of 
the IKS project would be nice.

My 2cts,
Stéphane

At 16:05 16.11.2009, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:

>Hi Wernher,
>
>On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Wernher Behrendt
><wernher.behrendt at salzburgresearch.at> wrote:
> > ...As I explained (as proxy for John) in the executive board meeting:
> > We (Salzburg Research) as ccordinators need to herd more sheep than just
> > Â the software and the consortium contributions....
>
>I understand and agree, but as it was presented the community
>agreement seems to take it for granted that software source code
>produced within the IKS project will live "at IKS", wherever that is.
>
>If that's the case (and I'm happy to be corrected if not), what
>happens to said software when IKS funding is over?
>
>I want IKS software (at least the key parts that us industrial
>partners will use) to live on neutral ground, somewhere where it can
>survive once the IKS project is over.
>
>Do we agree on this?
>
>-Bertrand
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