[Discussion] Consortium Bylaws Draft Available!

[Ivan Ristic]

Hi Matt,

A few comments:

> All committers must complete a copyright assignment to OISF.

I think you should consider giving shared copyright to committers. I
think that would enourage people to contribute significant chunks, as
there will be no danger that the code will be given away and possibly
"lost".


> Advisory Board members are entitled to receive a version of the
> OISF Engine under more permissive terms for a period of one year.

This isn't clear enough: do you mean that they get a perpetual licence
for the code but no updates after one year, or that all their rights
are terminated after one year?


> A 75% vote of all of the Committers can override a Board decision.
> The bylaws may be amended by a 75% vote of all the Committers.

In that case you'll need to ensure that you don't get too many
Committers from the same organisation (or related organisations).


On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Matt Jonkman <jonkman at jonkmans.com> wrote:
> We're happy to announce with the assistance of the Software Freedom Law
> Center (http://www.softwarefreedom.org/) a draft version of the bylaws
> for the OISF. This draft is open for public comment. All comments and
> questions are encouraged to be made publicly on the OISF Mailing lists,
> but may also be made privately to team at openinfosecfoundation.org.
>
> We welcome all ideas and comment, the charter we intend to adopt must
> govern this organization for years to come allowing it to both produce
> effective public products and grow to encompass new ideas and projects.
>
> The text of this draft is available here:
>
> http://www.openinformationsecurityfoundation.org/bylaws_draft_v0.1.txt
>
> Please take the time to read and comment. Watch for the discussion on
> this OISF mailing list Once the ideas and process is agreed upon by the
> community in general we'll generate the actual legal documentation and
> commit that to record.
>
> Our primary funding is nearly available, and we're set to start major
> development in the next few weeks. We'll be scheduling an initial
> planning meeting in the Washington DC area in the next 2 weeks.
> Attendance will be open to the public, we encourage you to attend!
>
> The OISF Team
>
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Ivan Ristic