Peter Parslow

Information on previous versions & organisations involved, in the context of discussion on patent rights: **1.0, 2004:** Co-branded, Cabinet Office e-Government Unit & AGI The UK GEMINI Discovery Metadata Standard...

Simon, I'll ask AGI, but I don't see myself as 'owning' this 'challenge' i.e. the adoption of GEMINI by OSB. The challenge owner listed above (from March 2021) is Lawrence...

Also, Simon, I'm tempted to ask: given that GEMINI is textual guidance on how to use a small group of ISO standards, how would it be possible for that guidance...

Simon, 1. how therefore does one examine a standard to decide whether any of the phrasing in it might cause an implement to violate a patent - clearly an impossible...

Some possible ways forward on @webmink's concern: - OSB decides that FRAND/RF is not fundamental when deciding whether to recommend adoption of a standard - perhaps in particular when it...

I would be quite confident to say that OS has no such claims, and I think I have the authority to do so :)

& that puts us back where we started - all institutions who may have contributed in the 18 years of GEMINI's existence...

The "original author", although working under contract, was a freelance professional for much of the time, so I guess we should get him to declare that he never sneaked any...

AGI are open to creating "a contributors agreement / IPR clause (or similar) like the one that OGC has" (OGC = Open Geospatial Consortium; their IPR policy is not unlike...

AGI have now added links from the GEMINI home page (https://www.agi.org.uk/uk-gemini/) to: - their GitHub repository where the AGI GEMINI Working Group manages changes - CC-BY 4