[Osmf-talk] Articles of Association Update 2.0

[Simon Poole]

Am 27.07.2014 17:33, schrieb Christoph (TheFive at OSM):
> Hi Simon,
> 
> 
> I do not get your *asset lock* down question. 
> 
> What kind of intellectual property can be disposed or transferred by the
> OSMF Board ?
> Is that not all regulated by the license ?  I think I need a more
> concrete sample for that, to create
> an own opinion.

Well for example the trademarks. And while the CTs limit what the OSMF
can do wrt distribution licence, I suspect that would be no hurdle to
say selling everything (naturally with all the obligations attached) to
your favourite big bad corporation (somebody more versed than my self
with UK contract law would have to step in here). Naturally there are a
number of non-threatening, completely sane, scenarios in which you might
want to move things around.

> 
> If there is something possible beside the license, we should have a
> regulation for that.
> 
> The initiation of a*license change process *should be defined, may be we
> can do something like
> the board need 10 % of active mapper to support the initiation of a
> license change process.
> I do not know exactly what percentage is useful to have a small but not
> a insurmountable barrier
> in starting such a process.

Requiring 10% of active mappers up front would seem to be a -very- high
hurdle. I was thinking more like a simple majority of the complete OSMF
membership (we do have to define this, because resolutions otherwise are
limited to regular members).

Simon

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