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This is an old revision of Blog20101002MageiaLegalManagement made by BenoitAudouard on 2010-10-02 02:01:23.
- 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)
- 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)