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

[Jennifer Bielewski]

I vote yes. Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: open-ils-documentation-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-documentation-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of jeremy
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 12:15 PM
To: Documentation discussion for Evergreen software
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Please Vote on Evergreen Documentation Licensing

Thanks for the reminder Karen - I vote yes to all proposals.

Jeremy Buhler
Sitka


On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 10:18 -0500, Karen Collier wrote:
> If you haven't voted yet, don't forget, today's the last day to cast your vote on the proposals below regarding documentation licensing.  Thank you to everyone who has already voted.
>
> And since I recently realized I haven't cast my own vote... I'll go ahead and do that.  I vote yes to all these proposals.  :)
>
> Thanks,
> Karen
>
> ----- "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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>


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