[CAVO] Travis County RFI

[Brent Turner]

Thanks Patrick -

This is very helpful and has been forwarded to Dana Debeauvoir, Micheal
Winn  and the others in Travis County.

I'm sure we have our work cut for us as Microsoft is a partner in this
project-- but we will continue to push for real open source rather than
alternative licensing schemes.

BT



On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Patrick Masson <masson at opensource.org>
wrote:

>  Brent (an CAVO list),
>
> As you will see I reached out to Richard Fontana (one of the OSI Board
> Directors) to share the RFI you forwarded as it raised a few concerns for
> me and I thought his assessment would help.
>
> My first impression was that the RFI seems to indicate that the County
> will assign a license that they call "open source" but allows the County or
> Consortium to control who can use/fork it, "usage rights for actual
> elections as well as derivative rights (as in using the code to create a
> derivative voting system) would be controlled by Travis County". This would
> not be permissible under an OSI approved open source license and would
> violate the Open Source Definition.
>
> Secondly the RFI includes several references to open source, but does not
> include specifically "OSI Approved License" (§14, page 138), for example:
> - "released to the public as “open source” under a license"
> - "vendor may propose to make other components of the software open source
> as they deem appropriate"
> - "shall be made open source"
> - "shall be released an open source and functioning reference
> implementation"
> - etc.
>
> I expect you would want to reach out to Travis County to raise this issue,
> but expect Richard might have more information. Also Larry might have some
> thoughts on that language as well.
>
> We'd be happy to help,
> Patrick
>
> P.S. re. Twitter account, Thanks, I will just include the CAVO URL in any
> relevant tweets I post.
>
>
> On Sun, 2015-06-14 at 21:18 -0700, Brent Turner wrote:
>
> CAVO does not have a Twitter account
>
>
>  On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Patrick Masson <masson at opensource.org>
> wrote:
>
>  Brent,
>
> What is CAVO's twitter account? I can't find it.
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
>
> On Sat, 2015-06-13 at 12:00 -0700, Brent Turner wrote:
>
> " Source code for specific modules relating to third-party verification of
> the public bulletin board and related published election artifacts would be
> published under a "suitable" (as determined by Travis County and/or
> consortium) open source license; "...
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Brent Turner <turnerbrentm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> http://traviscountyclerk.org/eclerk/Content.do?code=News.StarVote
>
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