[ESP] RE: ESP sourceforge

[Woolf, A (Andrew)]

While sourceforge can certainly be used for generic web hosting, I'm
guessing Chris' page will point to the sourceforge for code development. Was
that the idea, Kerstin?

Dean - comments on sf licences?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Middleton [mailto:don@ucar.edu]
> Sent: 29 January 2003 17:58
> To: Woolf, A (Andrew) ; Kleese, K (Kerstin); Lawrence, BN (Bryan) 
> Cc: Don Middleton
> Subject: Re: ESP sourceforge
> 
> 
> Hi Andrew et al - Perhaps we should open up the discussion to 
> the list? At
> the very least, we should add Dean in as he's already got 
> CDAT on SF and has
> likely considered the license issues. So, 1) Chris will 
> almost certainly be
> crafting a project description for the website and we could 
> reuse here.
> Also, what's the relationship between Chris' website, the SF 
> site, and the
> future UK site? 2) As above, Dean (and probably others on the 
> list) could
> contribute and, 3) "esportal" seems like a good compromise to me.
> 
> Might see you in Belgium!
> 
> don
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Woolf, A (Andrew) " <A.Woolf@rl.ac.uk>
> To: "'Don Middleton'" <don@ucar.edu>; "Kleese, K (Kerstin)"
> <K.Kleese@dl.ac.uk>; "Lawrence, BN (Bryan) " <B.N.Lawrence@rl.ac.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:31 AM
> Subject: ESP sourceforge
> 
> 
> > I was asked to set up an ESP sourceforge site.
> >
> > Terms and Conditions look reasonably innocuous, but include the
> > "...royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully
> > sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, 
> adapt, publish,
> > translate, create derivative works from, distribute, 
> perform and display
> > [any uploaded material including source code] worldwide and/or to
> > incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or 
> technology now known
> or
> > later developed, all subject to the terms of any applicable approved
> > license". I assume everyone's OK with that. Full T&C if 
> interested are at
> > http://sourceforge.net/tos/tos.php.
> >
> > I need two things:
> >
> > 1) A project description. Approval by sourceforge is based 
> on this, so it
> > needs to be reasonably detailed. I could have a shot, but 
> wasn't actually
> > there when ESP was invented, so please could someone else give me
> something.
> >
> > 2) Open-source licence. There around 40 canned choices
> > (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/) or we can request a 
> custom one. I am
> > no expert and haven't read them all, so maybe something 
> short and sweet
> like
> > the BSD or MIT would be best. Let me have your thoughts. 
> Must this be ran
> by
> > our legal/outreach dept's?
> >
> > Finally, there is already a sourceforge ESP project
> > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/esp/), so we'll need 
> another short name.
> > Perhaps esportal?
> >
> >  - Andrew
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------
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> >
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