Thanks Tyler - this is fantastic! I'm learning a lot already, reading
through it.
It would be good to clarify the copyright on the journal. Right now,
on page 70, it says "all articles are copyrighted by the respective
authors", and that's probably as it should be. But it's unclear how
anyone could reproduce copies of the journal.
For instance, is it ok to post a copy on another web site? Is it ok
to print 5 copies for a small office? Could the UN print and mail
copies to a number of field offices? Can copies be distributed on a
CD? etc. etc.
I think this could be solved with a CC-Attribution-NoDerivs or maybe
the non-commercial version of that license that covers the entire
journal issue. (I can't look up the "real" CC license version, their
site seems to be suffering some malady right now).
Then people could print entire copies but would have to get
permission from the authors to make copies of individual articles.
Allan
On May 15, 2007, at 10:54, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
It is my pleasure to announce that Volume 1 of the OSGeo Journal is
now available for your reading pleasure!
http://www.osgeo.org/journal/volume1
This is the first volume of the new Journal and includes many
interesting articles, news and updates from our open source
communities.
We already have some content ready for Volume 2 and have learned many
lessons along the way that will help the next volume be even better.
A big thanks to the editorial team for their hard work in pulling it
all together and to all the great contributions we received from
writers, developers, users and project teams. I'm excited to see that
we can promote projects, educate readers and provide news/info all in
our own professional publication.
I hope you enjoy it!
Sincerely,
Tyler
p.s. Please note that the Journal has an official ISSN number
(1994-1897) that you can cite in your formal bibliographic references.
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