[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Please Vote on Evergreen Documentation Licensing

[Joe Atzberger]

Yes to ALL.

--joe

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Karen Collier <kcollier at kent.lib.md.us>wrote:

> As discussed at the Documentation Interest Group Meeting on December, 9,
> 2009, I am calling for a vote on Documentation Licensing.  Members of the
> Documentation Interest Group and interested members of the Evergreen
> Community, please vote yes or no on the following proposals by Monday,
> January 4, 2009 by replying to this email on the Evergreen Documentation
> mailing list (open-ils-documentation at list.georgialibraries.org).
>
> 1 - Official Evergreen Documentation produced by the Documentation Interest
> Group should be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
> 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
>
> 2 - Any code included in the official documentation produced by the
> Documentation Interest Group should also be made available under the GNU GPL
> (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html).
>
> 3 - Official Evergreen Documentation may be made available under another
> copy-left (http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/copyleft.html) open source
> (http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd) license in the future with a majority
> vote on the Evergreen Documentation List (
> open-ils-documentation at list.georgialibraries.org) or comparable indication
> of the Evergreen community's wishes.
>
> 4 - These same licensing terms should be applied to the Documentation Wiki.
>  Past contributors to the Documentation Wiki should be notified by emails
> sent to Evergreen community mailing lists and to the email address
> associated with their docuwiki account of the new licensing terms and given
> a reasonable amount of time to request that their contributions not be
> included under those licensing terms.
>
> 5 - By submitting documentation to the Documentation wiki or to the
> Evergreen Documentation List after licensing terms have been decided and
> publicized, contributors indicate that they (a) agree to these licensing
> terms, and (b) to the best of their knowledge have the right to do so
> through copyright ownership, permission from the copyright owner(s), and/or
> the licensing terms of any documents that were modified or incorporated into
> their submission.
>
> --
> Karen Collier
> Public Services Librarian
> Kent County Public Library
> 408 High Street
> Chestertown, MD 21620
> 410-778-3636
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