Thanks for the clarification Jason...and I hate to be known as someone who puts one in an anal retentive/pedantic mindset!
Shall I get a copy of the KCLS Acq documentation that has a CC-SA license then? I doubt there's had any copyright statement on it. Lori On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Jason Etheridge <ja...@esilibrary.com>wrote: > <snip> > > giving them an opportunity to withhold their consent to an explicit > > license going forward, I think we're on reasonably good ground. > > Oh, I do too. Lori just put me in an anal retentive/pedantic mindset > with talk of unlicensed material. > > > So are you genuinely worried about > > the risk of legal proceedings, or is something else bothering you and > > this side thread is just the symptom? > > No, no worries. Intellectual "property" discussions tweak my brain. > I personally think the whole thing is out of balance and the public is > at risk of being catapulted off the scales. And that lawyers beget > more lawyers. > > But I also work for and have interest in a company that has a more > melded view of such things. > > > We seem to have quickly veered off > > your original question, which was about providing explicit attribution > > for large works that were incorporated into the documentation. > > Right. Veering back toward pedantic and away from kumbayah, I'm going > to focus on acquisitions documentation. There's a document on the > wiki titled "The Acquisitions Module Evergreen Release 2.0.0". It has > an explicit license: > > This manual is licensed under the Creative Commons, > Attribution-Share-Alike license. This document was created by Equinox > Software, Inc. with funding provided by Georgia Public Library > Service. Any reproductions or adaptations must attribute original > creation of this work to Equinox Software, Inc. and Georgia Public > Library Service. Any reproductions or adaptations must be distributed > under the same or a similar license. > > This document was placed wholesale within the Evergreen documentation, > which of course, was the intention. The original issue was that the > license was not being met. The Evergreen documentation merely had a > Copyright (C) The Evergreen Project, which is a non-legal entity > similar to the PostgreSQL Global Development Group. There was also a > list of participants. > > What is happening now (or what I'd like to continue seeing) is some > dialog on how to best fulfill the CC-BY-SA licenses of external > sources that we integrate into the Evergreen documentation. > > In the development community this is easy for us, as attribution is an > optional term for the GPL license, and credit for work is easily > determined. It seems sensible for similar contributions to the > documentation to work with the same sort of no-barrier record keeping. > But it seems different to me if you're integrating someone else's > work, however licensed. > > Before git made it easy for us, I made sure to credit tsbere for any > patch he contributed that I committed. Everyone else does similarly. > But with documentation, we weren't doing that, and the material is > shared under a license which explicitly cares about attribution. > > <re-licensing> > > What are you going to do to help resolve this issue? > > I'm going to forget about it. :-) > > -- > Jason Etheridge > | VP, Tactical Development > | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source > | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) > | email: ja...@esilibrary.com > | web: http://www.esilibrary.com > _______________________________________________ > OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION mailing list > OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION@list.georgialibraries.org > http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-documentation > -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant The Galecia Group // www.galecia.com (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com <lori.a...@galecia.com>Specializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, filtering, workflow optimization, and materials handling =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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