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This is an old revision of Blog20101002MageiaLegalManagement made by BubaR on 2010-10-04 18:48:15.
- organization: association or foundation
- who's responsible for what: president, treasurer
- licensing according to free software http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html & http://opensource.org (OSI) & http://faq.tuxfamily.org/License/En (see DFSG to be complete)
- responsibilities of those involved: packagers, mirror-admin, testers, developers, users
Legal management of licenses for Mageia
Well let's focus on what's distributed, mainly libre-software though copyright is not the only thing to take into account (software patents are still illegal in many countries for those trying to prevent fair-sharing and getting selfish-temporary "rights" in some countries, trademarks too have drawbacks unless they are used appropriately).Source is available at Mageia legal xmind (of course WikiLicense applies) see CompileXMind to edit it
- add user involvement
- identify relations on graphic
managing those illegal (in many countries) software patents
- plf
- example with mp3
- encoding with Frauhnaufer
- reading ? (check references)
- users
- distribution
- who can be concerned?
What's the use of a fair trademark?
some examples:- http://www.debian.org/logos/index.en.html
- OIN ?
- Fedora vs RedHat?
- Linux Foundation for use of Linux (appropriate for any GNU/Linux distribution iirc)
- http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/linux-foundation-trademark-usage-guidelines how to write it
- http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/legal/trademark/attribution everyone and sublicensees
- http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/lsb example of logo
- http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/
- http://foundation.gnome.org/licensing/index.html (find out KDE trademark too :D)
for those interested
Implementation should provide two means of contact, depending on the subject:- private: because some things have to be discussed without public knowing, between trusted people
- standard support: licensing, official position, explanations, like is debian-legal for example
Discuss -legal only or any need for a -licensing ML ? (IMHO, -legal is sufficient even though it would be public, private contact being possible, only requires proper explanation of what subjects can be addressed and which should not)
Some references in French
http://framalang.org/wiki/FRAMALANG:_10_m%C3%A9prises_courantes_sur_la_GPLVery tentative, will be removed tomorrow : Proposal for little modification on RDA scheme
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