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🧑‍⚖️ ©️ legal: Clarify copyright for DPG certification #1084

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@jwflory jwflory commented Dec 1, 2021

This commit adds a new note to the README file about copyright ownership
as documented by the GPLv3 in its "How to Apply These Terms to Your New
Programs" section:

cboard/LICENSE

Line 623 in e899dca

How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs

Of note, it clarifies that the intellectual property is stewarded by the
OTTAA Project, following the recent partnership of the two projects:

This clarifies feedback that came up in review of Cboard's application
to become a Digital Public Good, and will enable the certification
process to move forward. 🚀

See discussion in DPGAlliance/publicgoods-candidates#559 for more context.

CC: @martinbedouret @hectoritr @nathanbaleeta

Signed-off-by: Justin W. Flory (he/him) [UNICEF Innovation] jflory@unicef.org

jwflory added a commit to unicef/VentureFund-cboard that referenced this pull request Dec 1, 2021
Actually uses CC BY-SA 4.0 and not CC BY-SA 2.0 UK, see license:

https://github.com/mulberrysymbols/mulberry-symbols/blob/master/LICENSE.txt

To be squashed to one commit in PR cboard-org#1084.

Signed-off-by: Justin W. Flory (he/him) [UNICEF Innovation] <jflory@unicef.org>
This commit adds a new note to the README file about copyright ownership
as documented by the GPLv3 in its "How to Apply These Terms to Your New
Programs" section:

https://github.com/cboard-org/cboard/blob/e899dcac56b456794f5f9407d202513fd68b9433/LICENSE#L623

Of note, it clarifies that the intellectual property is stewarded by the
OTTAA Project, following the recent partnership of the two projects:

* DPGAlliance/publicgoods-candidates#559 (review)
* https://twitter.com/UNICEFinnovate/status/1429787336368431104
* https://unicef-if.discourse.group/t/meet-ottaa-project-tech-for-speech-impairment/132?u=jwf

This clarifies feedback that came up in review of Cboard's application
to become a Digital Public Good, and will enable the certification
process to move forward. 🚀

See discussion in DPGAlliance/publicgoods-candidates#559 for more context.

CC: @martinbedouret @hectoritr @nathanbaleeta

Signed-off-by: Justin W. Flory (he/him) [UNICEF Innovation] <jflory@unicef.org>

:beetle: licenses: Note Mulberry Symbol set licenses

Actually uses CC BY-SA 4.0 and not CC BY-SA 2.0 UK, see license:

https://github.com/mulberrysymbols/mulberry-symbols/blob/master/LICENSE.txt

Signed-off-by: Justin W. Flory (he/him) [UNICEF Innovation] <jflory@unicef.org>
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This commit adds a new note to the README file about copyright ownership as documented by the GPLv3 in its "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs" section:

cboard/LICENSE

Line 623 in e899dca

How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs

Of note, it clarifies that the intellectual property is stewarded by the OTTAA Project, following the recent partnership of the two projects:

This clarifies feedback that came up in review of Cboard's application to become a Digital Public Good, and will enable the certification process to move forward. rocket

See discussion in unicef/publicgoods-candidates#559 for more context.

CC: @martinbedouret @hectoritr @nathanbaleeta

Signed-off-by: Justin W. Flory (he/him) [UNICEF Innovation] jflory@unicef.org

@jwflory this looks good to me. Thanks.

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martinbedouret commented Dec 6, 2021

Great job @jwflory and @nathanbaleeta
We have added the official communication about board and ottaa here:
https://www.cboard.io/cboard/unicef/ottaa%20project/2021/11/25/cboard-and-ottaa-project/

@martinbedouret martinbedouret added this to the 1.17.0 milestone Dec 6, 2021
@martinbedouret martinbedouret merged commit 16635e1 into cboard-org:master Dec 6, 2021
@jwflory jwflory deleted the add/license-note-dpg branch December 8, 2021 14:41
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