[Uni-verse] Consortium agreement

[Lauri Savioja]

Hi Gert,

Thanks for reply. I just sent the new version to our legal
department. I hope they accept this version and agree to sign the
agreement.

I was told that typically an audit certificate costs roughly 1600
euros at HUT. If we are going to have three audits it makes altogether
4800 euros meaning that we should find 3000 euros for the audits from
some external source :-(. For this reason I would like to have this
topic raised up in the PCC so that we could find a feasible solution
to this problem. The price at HUT was a surprise to me and I would
have told it to you earlier if I knew it.

Regards,
	Lauri

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Gert Svensson wrote:

> Dear Lauri,
> 
> I have discussed this with our lawyer. She claims that this cannot be 
> easily changed since
> the budget is currently 1800 Euro. If we have to change the budget a 
> decision in the PCC is necessary.
> It also seems unreasonable that a partner could claim unlimited funding 
> for the Audit certificate.
> All other costs can only be reimbursed as long they are within the budget.
> 
> I hope this is OK for your legal department.
> 
> Best Regards
> Gert
> 
> Lauri Savioja wrote:
> 
> >Dear Gert,
> >
> >I just received comments from our legal department. Their only request
> >is the following:
> >
> >---
> >Article 6.1 According the rules of the Commission, the costs of Audit
> >certificates are fully paid by the Commission. The words "up to amount
> >1800 if not decided otherwise by the Project Co-ordination Committee of
> >the management activities within the budget." must be replaced by "fully."
> >---
> >
> >Related to the existing know-how HUT would like to mention two
> >softwares:
> >
> >1) rt - geometric room-acoustic software including the ray-tracing and
> >the image-source methods,
> >
> >2) auralize - auralization software.
> >
> >Both of these are distributed if requested in Limited Source Code
> >without any support and permission to use these to fullfill the goals
> >of Uni-Verse is granted. 
> >
> >Our goal is to make replacements for both of the softwares under GPL
> >in the Uni-Verse project incorporating the functionality required to
> >fullfill the goals of Uni-Verse. For this reason there should be no
> >reason to distribute these but still I would like to have these two
> >written down.
> >
> >Regards,
> >	Lauri
> >
> > 
> >
> >>On Tue, 09 Dec 2003, Gert Svensson wrote:
> >>
> >>Dear Friends,
> >>
> >>this message was sent last week but was too large for the mailing list
> >>so I'm resending with a link to the agreement draft:
> >>http://www.pdc.kth.se/~gert/Uni-Verse-CA-2003-12-04.doc
> >>
> >>As we talked about on the meeting in Amsterdam a consortium agreement is
> >>needed in a project like this. This has to be completed before the 
> >>commission signs the contract.
> >>
> >>The consortium agreement is only between the partners and stipulates how
> >>the project is to be managed, how decisions are made and rules for 
> >>Intellectual Property Rights etc.
> >>
> >>The lawyers at KTH has finally prepared a draft of such a contract based
> >>on a standard contract called the Helmholz agreement.
> >>
> >>I think this needs some discussion and explanations.
> >>Just now I just send the contract so you can start to read or let your
> >>lawyers read it.
> >>
> >>It is however important that we finalize the agreement this year.
> >>
> >>Best Regards
> >>Gert
> >>
> >>
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