Post by Quim GilHi, I guess you refer to
http://opensource.com/life/11/2/open-rule-governance-benchmark
Thanks for the link.
Post by Quim GilGood Rules
- Modern license. OK: http://qt-project.org/legal.html#licensing
- No copyright aggregation. OK: http://qt-project.org/legal.html
That's debatable. While the author talks about copyright assignment, which is
what the GNU project requires for example, many in the community consider the
existence of a license agreement giving one entity more rights than others to
be an equal problem.
That said, the CLA for Qt includes the rationale of why it exists, which many
(including me) agree it's for a greater good.
Post by Quim Gil- Trademark policy. OK: http://qt-project.org/trademarkpolicy.html
Are you claiming "OK" because the policy exists or because it complies with
what the article says? Note that you can summarise the article by saying "the
trade marks are equally accessible or inaccessible to all".
During the Spring and Summer, I remember discussing that the trademark would
be licensable under a license similar to the Linux® mark. Do you know how the
Qt® 11-page license text compares to the Linux one?
BTW, the link to the license PDF is wrong in that webpage.
Post by Quim GilBy Its Fruit
Bear in mind that we are just completing the first week of Qt Project.
- Multiple co-developers. OK: apart from Nokia there are several
contributors already now from other companies and individuals on their
own or under the KDE umbrella.
- Forking is feasible. OK: it is a feasible scenario +
http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php
I'd note here that the article says nothing about the trademark policy
allowing the use of the marks for the fork. That needs to be clear, as most
forks do change the names and marks they use and clearly indicate they are, in
fact, a fork.
Post by Quim Gil- Transparency. potentially OK: since last Friday "what is not visible
doesn't exist" - Lars Knoll. Still needs to be fully demonstrated but
any transparency problem will become a bug with top priority.
I'd add: we're being very clear that all decisions happen only when publicly
discussed in the mailing lists. Face-to-face meetings, including the summits,
are permitted, but conclusions reached there must be posted to the relevant
mailing lists before they can be considered a decision.
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