<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi John,<div><br></div><div>thanks for this very helpful proposal. Some comments and questions inline.</div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Overview</span></div><div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>The Community </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Agreement consists of the following parts:</span></div><div>• <b>Contribution Assignment:</b> The agreement used by contributors to share copyright on their contributions with Salzburg Research.The agreement also covers some key patent issues.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Copyrights or patents? I suggest that we keep both issues separated. Sharing of "patent issues" should be easy for all research partners, i.e., research partners should not be limited by patents during the project and thereafter. This might be different for sharing patents between commercial partners. Copyright is different and probably less complicated. </div><div><br></div><div>Furthermore I suggest that we make public to all IKS partners who is sharing which patents with whom. This helps to avoid misunderstandings and problematic patent relationships, e.g., mixing GNU licenses with patented software. Then we will also know which software must be replaced for IKS solutions under OSS/Free license agreements.</div><div><br></div><div>We also need a procedure for setting up such patent sharing agreements incl. documentation, signing and arbitration services.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div> The agreement is supported with an FAQ for contributors, a process for receiving and archiving signed agreements, and resources to support legal review.</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>• <b>Licensing Recommendations for Content</b>: Recommendations for why the IKS project should use the Creative Commons Attribution licence for most of the content that the project produces.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>"most of the content": this is even difficult for research publications because publishers have different policies for open access (<a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm</a>). I am in favor of a public Open Access repository for all(!) our IKS publications (direct file storage or link to another Open Access repository). This means that each author has to clear the rights for his/her article (tech reports, submitted papers, pre-print, or final). All major publishers has some kind of Open Access policy. This is different for conferences. Here we could make a list of conferences and identify their Open Access policies and steps how to clear OA licenses of publications.</div><div><br></div><div>For our deliverables we might have to identify upfront which deliverables cannot be published under a particular Open Access / CC license terms.</div><div><br></div><div>My suggestion for CC license: non-commercial, do not allow modifications, jurisdiction: Austria? / Belgium?</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>• <b>Licensing for Software:</b> Recommendations for why the IKS project should licence project content under the Simplified BSD licence.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Modified BSD (BSD excluding ad note) is one of many choices (<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html</a>). For some reasons I would be in favor of the Apache License but this is just my opinion. This discussion takes some time.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>• <b>Privacy Policy for Websites:</b> 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.</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>• <b>Legal Disclaimer and Limitations for the Websites</b>: 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.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We don't we reduce this to "no liability"? Software under OSS/Free license schemes exclude liability. Contents under CC licenses work the same way. Hence, if we stick with some OSS/Free software license scheme and CC licenses for contents, we should be only liable for things that a governed by overarching national or international laws.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>• <b>Site Licensing Policy:</b> 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.</div></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>These are my initial thoughts. </div><div><br></div><div>I appreciate this initiative.</div><div><br></div><div>Wolfgang</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; 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