Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
I too am wondering about "at your option". Does this mean you can use one or the other or both depending on what you want to do with the document? That is what I think of when I read "at your option" . Also are these lic only going to apply to the documents or the entire Author site?Daniel wrote:
The Debian-legal team was very friendly and helpful. They have kindly helped me write down a copyright notice for us:
This document is Copyright 2004 by its contributors as defined in the section titled Authors. This document is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html), or under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, version 2.0 or later (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), at your option.
Thank you, Daniel, for these 3 emails so clearly setting out the background and proposal. You've done an awesome job researching this, and I for one really appreciate all your work -- as well as agreeing with your proposal!
+1 on the dual license, the copyright statement (but see my comments below), and the changed front matter of the template.
I like the placement of the "Authors" section where Janet suggested, after the Copyright section.
Just one question: I'm not entirely sure what the phrase "at your option" at the end of the copyright notice means. I assume that "you" is the person receiving the document, or intending to reuse some/all of it, and that person can choose which license they are going to receive or reuse the material -- is that right? If so, I think a slight rewording would make it more explicit. I also wonder if "choice" might be a better term than "option", which is used for so many things in computer docs.
I'm trying to think of better (but still short) wording, but so far I haven't succeeded.
Janet, perhaps you can think of something?
Sorry to be picky about this, but if we're adopting a new copyright statement, we should make sure no one is going to have a problem with the details.
If no one else on this list has a problem with this, I'm willing to let it go, but I did want to bring up the subject.
Cheers, Jean
Thanks for all of the research and hard work you put into this Daniel. Sorry for the delay in response. I like to gather all the info I can before saying yes or no.
Linda
