[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Fwd: Evergreen Documentation Licensing Terms

[Karen Collier]

Just an FYI in answer to a question that came up on the DIG list recently about whether Docuwiki participants had been notified of the CC-BY-SA licensing terms when they were adopted.  The email below was sent on January 13, 2010 to the approximately 127 people with Docuwiki accounts at that time.  The email forwarded to Docuwiki account holders was one originally sent to the Documentation, General, and Development lists.  5 emails were undeliverable, 5 people replied explicitly agreeing to the new terms, no one replied asking us not to use their material, and most did not reply.  From the way the email was worded, a lack of reply was supposed to imply consent.

Karen

----- "Karen Collier" <kcollier at kent.lib.md.us> wrote:

> I am forwarding this email directly to you because you have an
> Evergreen Documentation Wiki account.  If you have contributed content
> to the Wiki in the past you will want to be aware of the forwarded
> information so that you will have the opportunity to decide whether or
> not you wish to have your past contributions included in future
> documentation licensed under the terms described below.  Please feel
> free to contact me with any questions or concerns.  If you decide you
> do NOT want your past contributions to the Documentation Wiki licensed
> under these terms please contact the Documentation Facilitators at
> docs at evergreen-ils.org or the Documentation mailing list at
> open-ils-documentation at list.georgialibraries.org by Friday, January
> 29, 2010 and let us know.
> 
> Thank you,
> Karen Collier
> 
> ----- "Karen Collier" <kcollier at kent.lib.md.us> wrote:
> 
> > The Evergreen Documentation Interest Group (DIG) has voted to
> accept
> > the following proposals for Evergreen Documentation Licensing.  The
> > vote took place December 21, 2009 - January 4, 2010 on the
> > Documentation Interest Group Mailing List.  There were 18 yes votes
> > and 0 no votes, for a unanimous decision.  
> > 
> > Since these licensing terms affect the entire Evergreen community,
> and
> > particularly anyone who has contributed to the Documentation Wiki,
> we
> > wanted to keep everyone informed.  Please take a moment to read the
> > licensing terms below (also available on the wiki at
> >
> http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-docs:documentation_licensing_terms).
> >  If you have previously contributed documentation to the
> Documentation
> > Wiki and do NOT want your contributions to be licensed under these
> > terms, please contact the DIG facilitators or the DIG mailing list
> and
> > let us know that by Friday, January 29th.
> > 
> > I am crossposting this to several Evergreen related mailing lists
> and
> > blogs, as well as sending an email about this to anyone with a
> > DokuWiki account, so I apologize for duplicate messages.  If you
> have
> > any questions, feel free to contact the DIG facilitators at
> > docs at evergreen-ils.org.
> > 
> > I hope you'll agree that this is a positive step forward for the
> > Evergreen community.  And, if you find some free time, that you
> might
> > consider joining the Documentation Interest Group in producing some
> > community-wide documentation.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Karen Collier
> > Documentation Interest Group Co-Facilitator
> > 
> > 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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> >
> http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-documentation
> 
> -- 
> Karen Collier
> Public Services Librarian
> Kent County Public Library
> 408 High Street
> Chestertown, MD 21620
> 410-778-3636

-- 
Karen Collier
Public Services Librarian
Kent County Public Library
408 High Street
Chestertown, MD 21620
410-778-3636 ext. 2113
www.kentcountylibrary.org