Hi,
below Simon's answer to my answers to his post on the live-demo list :
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2011-July/003653.html
Do you have opinions on how we should handle the licence of documentation on
gdal.org ?
Best regards,
Even
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On 06/07/11 18:12, Even Rouault wrote:
All doc living on gdal.org is automatically generated from the content of the
GDAL/OGR subversion repository, so it comes from GDAL commiters that have agreed
to submit their contributions under the X/MIT licence terms. Thus, I would tend
to think that the doc taken from there can be used under those terms or
equivalently liberal licencing terms (looks like CC-BY might be the closest
equivalent, perhaps CC0 ?, but I'm not familiar with CC licences).
The GDAL project came under my Group 1 'No copyright specified on the
website'.
Some points worth considering...
1. Not specifying a licence means the work's copyright defaults to the
copyright laws for the jurisdiction the work was published, not to
something used elsewhere even if it is a permissive licence..
2. The website should be updated to identify that the documentation is
covered under MIT licence and point to the deed as several versions of
this licence is in existence.
As far as my contributions are concerned (almost nothing on the main page
actually, mainly in drivers or API documentation), I'm fine that they are reused
under any free licence you see fit. But this is just my personal opinion, not
necessarily the official one from the project or its other contributors,
although I'd be surprised that anyone would oppose to making it available under
terms appropriate for it to be used by osgeo-live.
If people have contributed code and documentation under a general MIT
licence...
Copyright (C) <year> by <copyright holders>
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this software and *associated documentation files* (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:
*The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.*
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License
This is not equivalent to CC-BY. No attribution is necessary. The only
requirement is reproduction of the above notice with all derivatives.
Something not currently being done by on the LiveDVD.
Further discussion on the issue can be found here...
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Version_3#MIT
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Cheers Simon
Simon Cropper
Principal Consultant
Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd
PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC
W: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au
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