RE: [election-services] NEW IPR POLICY

["David RR Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>]

John,

 

Sorry I missed the call.  I had project production issues that I had to attend to.

 

Why are we rushing to embrace the RF IP mode?

 

Seems to me this just potentially gets us into problems - rather than solves problems - especially WRT OSI licensing of open source implementations of EML. 

 

None of this has been resolved by the OASIS board to my knowledge - in fact worse - the OSI and OASIS are supposed to be talking to each other to fix the wording and policy issues - and they are just not doing so.

 

Since we already have grandfathered in our current status - I'm not at all clear what we are trying to "solve" here - my take is that let sleeping dogs lay where they are for now.

 

Are we under pressure from OASIS staff to make a choice?  I see no purpose to this right now.

 

Thanks, DW

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [election-services] NEW IPR POLICY
From: "Borras, John" <John.Borras@legsb.gov.uk>
Date: Mon, November 21, 2005 11:51 am
To: <election-services@lists.oasis-open.org>

Following up our discussion today on the conference call about the new IPR policy, ( see http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php ) can you all please take a close look at the new policy and let me know if going forward under the RF Mode would cause you any problems.  We can opt for one of the other modes if necessary but RF would seem the most appropriate to me.  Following any comments from you I'll post a formal vote to make the transition.

 

John

 

 

 

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