On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:49:55AM +0100, Kake wrote:
On Fri 11 May 2012, Dominic Hargreaves dom@earth.li wrote:
There are two questions:
- do the statements on the web site correspond to the licence for that data?
- is the licence DFSG-free[0]?
- can it be altered to be made so?
- how does the logo requirement relate to library applications?
Do you have any thoughts on how long it might take to get these questions answered and sorted out, and are you willing/able to take the lead on that? (I am happy to do the prodding Andy part, to get the Template package updated - I will email him the moment someone agrees to take charge of the other issue.)
I've sent an email to the Ordnance Survey about the licensing; you can see it at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664558#24
Some of us were hoping to talk about the Oxford Guide at the next-but-one Oxford Geek Night (in July), but if the guide can't be upgraded before then, there's not much point in us going and telling people about all of OpenGuides' new shiny features...
I think I asked in a previous email whether it would be possible for the Debian packages to also look for separately-installed CPAN modules, i.e. to have the OSGB module installed in a user directory, and have the Oxford Guide CGIs include that directory in their 'use lib' - was that question overlooked, or is it impossible? (I don't know enough about how Debian works to tell whether this is a ridiculous question.)
Sort of. It couldn't be a publicly released Debian package in that way, because it then wouldn't be possible to run it in the expected way just be installing it with Debian packaging tools, but it could be an interim stage. More likely I will build the package[1] and install it locally on urchin.
[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libgeo-coordinates-osgb-perl.git