[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Updating Attributions

[Jason Etheridge]

> As one of the 18 "yes" votes to that proposal, yes. If task #4 ('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') happened, and there were no
> refusals, then we should be in reasonably good shape. (We could stand to
> add an explicit footer on the wiki stating that all contributions are
> licensed under CC-BY-SA, of course).

I think task #4 having happened could only help if there is ever a
legal dispute, but I don't think it gave us any right to re-license
another copyright holder's material, if that's what anyone thought.

> For what it's worth, I bet the bulk of the copyright holders who
> contributed to the wiki prior to January 7, 2010 could be counted on two
> hands (and consequently asked if they object to the incorporation of
> their content into the Evergreen documentation under an explicit
> CC-BY-SA license). Also note that we could ask GPLS to explicitly
> license any work performed by their employees prior to that date, given
> how copyright in the US is by default assigned to the employer. After
> that - how much do you realistically think would be left?

Doesn't seem insurmountable.  Who's our copyright coordinator again? :)

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