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OKFN or CKAN Association #5

Open rossjones opened 10 years ago

rossjones commented 10 years ago

The document contains several mentions of OKFN

You grant to the Open Knowledge Foundation a perpetual, non-exclusive,
irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable license

and

You understand that the decision to include the Contribution in any project or source 
repository is entirely that of the Open Knowledge Foundation

Surely these should be the CKAN Association.

rufuspollock commented 10 years ago

@rossjones CKAN Association is not a legal entity. As per current CKAN Association FAQ the Association is homed at the Open Knowledge Foundation and so it is to the Open Knowledge Foundation that the license must be made etc

rossjones commented 10 years ago

And the part about who decides what goes in?

You understand that the decision to include the Contribution in any project or 
source repository is entirely that of the Open Knowledge Foundation
rufuspollock commented 10 years ago

@rossjones I think that is #1 (?) - just answered there based on my understanding.

rufuspollock commented 10 years ago

Are we happy to resolve this?

jpmckinney commented 10 years ago

It's not difficult or expensive to set up a legal person in the UK. Why not create a proper CKAN Association?

rossjones commented 9 years ago

Francis Davey pointed me at http://create.oneclickorgs.com/organisations/new a while back now, it even contains tools to manage voting. He was of the opinion that it was the best approach to forming associations and such like (he provided the legal advice).

rufuspollock commented 9 years ago

It is a significant move to make this change. Right here is probably not the place to discuss or debate whether this is a good idea. What I'd note is that it is unlikely that this is something to resolve in the CLA discussion - it would need to be a bigger and longer discussion with relevant CKAN stakeholders.

Right now, and at least AFAICT on a relatively near-term timeline, the only relevant legal entity who can be assignee in the document is the Open Knowledge Foundation.

If there was some language people wanted that made more explicit that actual decision making on behalf of CKAN project is CKAN Association then I think that would be great.

@rossjones i've known about oneclicks from their inception. Incorporating is not the issue per se. It is all the additional commitments that go with it - what is your governance, how does it work and all the attendant work: filing accounts, having a reliable (backing) board, having money to pay for overheads etc etc.