[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Evergreen Documentation Licensing Terms

[Karen Collier]

Well, the deadline has passed, and I count 18 "yes" votes to zero "no" votes.  Congratulations everybody, DIG has unanimously selected licensing terms for official Evergreen documentation.  The licensing terms are below and have been posted on the wiki at http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-docs:documentation_licensing_terms.  I'll get started working on notifying people of these terms, and how they relate to the wiki (part 4).

For pre-existing documentation that did not originate on the wiki, it would be ideal to get official permission to use that documentation under these licensing terms.  If you are the copyright owner, have permission from the copyright owner, or otherwise have the right to agree to these terms on behalf of some of this pre-existing documentation, please do so by submitting the documentation to the mailing list (either by attachment or if the file is big by linking to it) and stating that you agree to its use under Evergreen's Documentation Licensing Terms (http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-docs:documentation_licensing_terms).  If you're not the right person to agree, but know who is, please talk to that person about it.

I would love to see us get documentation writing off to a running start in 2010.  To this end, perhaps those with a few minutes could take a look at the proposed documentation outline and consider what portion you would like to begin working on.  Drop an email to docs at evergreen-ils.org to let the facilitators know.

Happy New Year!

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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Karen Collier
Public Services Librarian
Kent County Public Library
408 High Street
Chestertown, MD 21620
410-778-3636