[Eg-oversight-board] Fwd: Re: [Evergreen-governance-l] propose new footers on EG websites

[Rogan Hamby]

"As a recipient of federal funds you are required to acknowledge the
Institute of Museum and Library Services when undertaking grant-supported
activities." 

They allow you to interpret this in a number of ways though they give
recommendations here:
http://www.imls.gov/recipients/communication.shtm



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On 8/8/11 10:50 AM, "Galen Charlton" <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:

>[Forwarding to eg-oversight-board --gmc]
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: Re: [Evergreen-governance-l] propose new footers on EG websites
>Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:47:47 -0400
>From: Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com>
>To: evergreen-governance-l at list.georgialibraries.org
>
>Hi,
>
>On 08/08/2011 10:39 AM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote:
>> I'd like to propose that the current footer on the evergreen-ils site be
>> changed from:
>>
>> © 2008-2011 GPLS <http://www.georgialibraries.org/> and others |
>> Partially funded by the Library Services & Technology Act through the
>> Institute of Museum and Library Services.
>>
>> to
>>
>> © 2008-2011 GPLS and others.  Evergreen is open source software,
>> freely licensed under GNU GPLv2.  The Evergreen Project is a member of
>> the Software Freedom Conservancy.
>
>I am in favor of mentioning the license (although it should be "GNU GPL
>v2 or later", not just "GNU GPL v2") and our membership in the SFC.  I
>am not sure about dropping the IMLS line.  I suspect, but don't know,
>that the project was obligated to include that line as one of the
>conditions of the grant, and of course, at least some ongoing work on
>Evergreen continues to be funded from LSTA grant money.  Is anybody here
>able to comment authoritatively on what the IMLS would require?
>
>Regards,
>
>Galen
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