[Evergreen-web-team] propose new footers on EG websites

Mon Aug 8 10:57:14 EDT 2011

Sound good to me

June

From: evergreen-web-team-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org [mailto:evergreen-web-team-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org] On Behalf Of Lori Bowen Ayre
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 10:39 AM
To: Evergreen Community Web Team Email List; evergreen-governance-l
Subject: [Evergreen-web-team] propose new footers on EG websites

I'd like to propose that the current footer on the evergreen-ils site be changed from:

(c) 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
to

with a link from "GNU GPLv 2" to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
and "member of" links to http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=583
and "Software Freedom Conservancy" links to http://sfconservancy.org/

Second, I'd like to propose that this new footer be added to the wiki and blog.

Previous posts on this topic:

Hi All,

I attended the EG Oversight Board mtg this morning and we talked about things like footers and attribution statements that should be used now that we are officially a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy.

What I think we should do is propose some guidelines for language people should use on the evergreen-ils website pages as well as in the OPAC or wherever else Evergreen is running and info about Evergreen licensing can be included.

An appropriate variation for Evergreen might look like this:
(c) 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.
(c) 2011 SFC/Evergreen.  The Evergreen project is a member the Software Freedom Conservancy.  All content on the Evergreen project  website is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike 3.0 License<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>.  Evergreen is open-source software, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>.

I suggest this is a discussion starter.  I've invited Dan Scott in on this thread too.  Comments?

Lori

>From Dan Scott:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre at galecia.com<mailto:lori.ayre at galecia.com>> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I attended the EG Oversight Board mtg this morning and we talked about
> things like footers and attribution statements that should be used now that
> we are officially a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy.
> What I think we should do is propose some guidelines for language people
> should use on the evergreen-ils website pages as well as in the OPAC or
> wherever else Evergreen is running and info about Evergreen licensing can be
> included.
> An appropriate variation for Evergreen might look like this:
>
> (c) 2008-2011 GPLS and others | Partially funded by the Library Services &
> Technology Act through the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
>
> (c) 2011 SFC/Evergreen.  The Evergreen project is a member the Software
> Freedom Conservancy.  All content on the Evergreen project  website is
> available under the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike 3.0 License.
>  Evergreen is open-source software, licensed under the GNU General Public
> License (GPL), version 2.
>
> I suggest this is a discussion starter.  I've invited Dan Scott in on this
> thread too.  Comments?
To provide a tiny bit more context, the discussion about adding a
statement to the footer stemmed from a suggestion made by Bradley Kuhn
of the Software Freedom Conservancy; he suggested making the
relationship between the Software Freedom Conservancy and the
Evergreen project clear. The "Evergreen joins the Software Freedom
Conservancy" blog post serves that purpose for now until it is no
longer one of the newest blog posts; and the SFC logo is nice and
clear in the "Support Evergreen" block, but I suspect few people will
realize that is the SFC logo or that we're a member of the SFC until
they click through. I therefore suggested adding another line to the
footer similar to what Lori proposed. However, I was thinking much
more basic - simply:

"The Evergreen project is a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy."

We could make "member of the Software Freedom Conservancy" a link to
the membership announcement blog post, where the nature of the
relationship is revealed for interested parties. If we want to keep
the footer as clean as possible, this statement could just live on the
front page next to the "Evergreen is open source software, freely
licensed under the GNU GPL." statement.

I realize that you're looking to license the web content under a CC
license at some point, but I wouldn't mix that into this discussion
(you need to get the consent of all copyright holders over the content
of the Web site before you can place it under any license). I wouldn't
make a copyright statement about "SFC/Evergreen", either, as
"SFC/Evergreen" is not a real legal entity. And given that we state
the project license in the second sentence on the home page, in the
FAQs, and in the code itself, I'm not sure we need the license of the
project's code in the footer.

>From Lori Ayre:
Thanks for the background and clarification, Dan.  Much appreciated.

I think your suggestions are easy enough to implement.  I like the idea of putting it in the footer and on the front page.

Here's what I propose.  How do others feel about:

1.  Add "The Evergreen project is a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy" to the footer that displays on all the website pages.

2.  Add the above statement on the front page next to the "Evergreen is open source software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL." statement. (and I recommend changing "GPL" to "GPL, Version 2.")

3.  Linking "member of the Software Freedom Conservancy" in both the footer and front page to the membership announcement blog post at http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=583.

4.  Put on our agenda for addressing later:  look into adding a CC license to the evergreen-ils website and wiki.

>From Jim Craner:
Inline...

>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre at galecia.com<mailto:lori.ayre at galecia.com>>
>  Sent: 22 Jun '11 11:48

>  Here's what I propose.  How do others feel about:
>
>  1.  Add "The Evergreen project is a member of the Software Freedom
>  Conservancy" to the footer that displays on all the website pages.
+1

>  2.  Add the above statement on the front page next to the "Evergreen is
>  open source software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL." statement. (and
>  I recommend changing "GPL" to "GPL, Version 2.")
+1

>  3.  Linking "member of the Software Freedom Conservancy" in both the
>  footer and front page to the membership announcement blog post at [LINK:
>  http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=583] http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=583.

My only suggestion to this proposed item would be to make the "Software Freedom Conservancy" part be a
link to the SFC website, not to the relevant EG blog post.  I might make "is a member" a link to that blog post
or add a "More info" link to that blog post at the end.

>  4.  Put on our agenda for addressing later:  look into adding a CC
>  license to the evergreen-ils website and wiki.
The Website Team already recognized this as a need and it's already a formal recommendation for the Comms
Committee.

In practical terms, those of us on the Website Team call where this was discussed decided it was out of our
hands and kicked it "up" to the Communications Committee where it was immediately kicked back down to me
to research boilerplate options and what other similar sites are doing with respect to this.

More information can be found on this page - but although I have gathered Privacy and Terms of User
examples, I haven't gathered any Intellectual Property license examples yet (since most sites seem to either
reserve all rights or explicitly use a CC or GFDL):

http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=webteam:website_policy_samples

Thanks!
Jim

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