[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Please Vote on Evergreen DocumentationLicensing

[Christensen, David A. (CHTS)]

I vote Yes to all.

Great work, folks!

-David Christensen 

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> rg] On Behalf Of Karen Collier
> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 10:06 AM
> To: Public Open-ILS documentation discussion
> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Please Vote on Evergreen 
> DocumentationLicensing
> 
> 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.
> 
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> Karen Collier
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