Hey all,
This is an attempt to clarify the situation for Geotools documentation
going forward.
We apparently have two choices for the User Guide (aka Programmers'
Manual):
1) Add each contributor to the copyright list, holding the
copyright in common and license the whole document under the
FDL.
2) Assign copyright to the PMC or OSGeo and have them license
the document to the general public under the FDL.
The main advantage of the latter is that it becomes possible for the
project to change its mind as to the details of the license, something
which may become important as the FDL comes to be better understood.
This second approach seems to be the one taken by the Developers Guide.
Here is the copyright statement from the Developers Guide:
Copyright (c) 2004 Geotools Project Management Committee (PMC).
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being with no Invariant
Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts being no Front-Cover Texts,
and with the Back-Cover Texts being no Back-Cover Texts.
Given that the PMC is considered *not* to have sufficient legal standing
for code copyright assignment, I presume the same is true for the docs.
Will the OSGeo be able to receive copyright assignment for the docs? Is
there any particular proceedure we need to follow to assign this
copyright and to receive assignment from third parties?
thanks,
adrian
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