[Evergreen-web-team] copyright statement

[Lori Bowen 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.

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On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre <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:
> >
> > © 2008-2011 GPLS and others | Partially funded by the Library Services &
> > Technology Act through the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
> >
> > © 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.
>
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