[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Updating Attributions

[Soulliere, Robert]

A few things to consider regarding more specific copyright statements:

1) This approach will require a lot of back tracking work and time to track down original sources, dates, and licenses of all the sources.

2) In many cases this information came from secondary sources so it is difficult to track down the original source of some information.

3) Some authors contributed work from a number of sources into one document. In some cases those authors may not be active in the DIG so it may be hard to get the information on sources where they got their information.

4) Perhaps we will need more parameters on what is a source which could stand on its own. For example, a lot of information was taken from pages on the wiki. Is each wiki page a stand alone entity?

Admittedly, these problems are probably the result of a failure to establish a good set of rules, guidelines and practices early on in regards to copyright, citations, etc...

To resolve this issue going forward, perhaps we need a new set of rules and policies indicating that any documentation included from other sources needs to have a attribution statement sent from the original source added to the attributions appendix before being included in the documentation?

Perhaps we need another DIG position -- "copyright coordinator"?


Regards,
Robert










Robert Soulliere, BA (Hons), MLIS
Systems Librarian
Mohawk College Library
robert.soulliere at mohawkcollege.ca
Telephone: 905 575 1212 x3936
Fax: 905 575 2011
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From: open-ils-documentation-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [open-ils-documentation-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Jason Etheridge [jason at esilibrary.com]
Sent: May 16, 2011 5:29 PM
To: Documentation discussion for Evergreen software
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Updating Attributions

> Also if you have any questions or concerns about how we're handling attributions and copyright at the moment, now's the time to speak up.
>
> Jason & Robert, did I leave anything out?

I think we should be a little more specific with external sources that
can stand on their own (as opposed to patches/changes directly against
our documentation), like a citation.

For example,

Copyright © 2011 BC Libraries Cooperative
"Sitka Evergreen Training Manual", originally published at
http://docs.sitka.bclibraries.ca/Sitka/current/html/
and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
Unported license

Copyright © 2011 Georgia Public Library Service & Equinox Software
"The Acquisitions Module Evergreen Release 2.0.0", originally published at
http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=the_acquisitions_module_ev.pdf
and licensed under the Creative Commons, Attribute-Share-Alike license.

What do you think?

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