Yes it is something you need to respond to, as long as you are going to continue to provide Developer Announcements to the Journal by referring us to content you have online on that site. While the GeoTools website has one license, we are re-publishing your content under another one (CC-by-nd).
I am asking that your PMC (as copyright holder) consider granting us permission to re-license it for publication in the Journal and for future translation. If it's a problem, then we can probably live with it - but it is no going to be easy for us to deal with parts of the journal under a different license - then we can't put the entire Journal under a single license. This is obviously more of a concern for longer journal articles that share more intellectual property, than it is for project updates, but it would be good if we could relicense your updates as well. Make sense? Tyler On 28-May-07, at 9:46 AM, Jody Garnett wrote: > Hi Tyler: > > Is this something I need to respond to? Currently GeoTools > documentation is under the following license: > - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOT/1.3+Documentation+License > > Subject to the same "let's sort it out" issues as our code base. > Jody >> Hi everyone, >> First off - thank you very much for contributing to the OSGeo >> Journal - Volume 1. Now available for your reading pleasure at: >> http://www.osgeo.org/journal/volume1 - we have been receiving >> great feedback on the articles and had over 900 downloads! I >> encourage you to post a link to the Journal and mention it in your >> respective communities. >> >> I am writing to ask you for some help... >> >> As you may have noticed, we rushed a couple things to get the >> Journal published without further delay. One of the things that >> we failed to do was identify a good redistribution license. You, >> as author, hold copyright over the material you submitted, so you >> are always free to do as you wish with it. We would like to apply >> a Creative Commons - "By Attribution-No Derivatives" license to >> the Journal and its content (your content). See our policy page >> for more info: >> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Journal_License_and_Guidelines >> >> -- If you can agree with us applying this license, would you >> please email me back (privately) to acknowledge this? >> >> There are also several groups interested in translating the >> Journal into other languages. Would you allow us, the Journal >> management team, to coordinate translation of your contributions >> into other languages? A translation is, technically, a "derived" >> work so we would need your permission to do this under the BY-ND >> license above. We will redistribute the translations in a similar >> fashion as the current English version, though we'd have members >> from the community at large help us do the translation work. >> >> -- Is this acceptable to you? >> >> If you have any questions or feedback please let me know. >> >> Thanks again, >> Tyler > Tyler Mitchell Executive Director Open Source Geospatial Foundation [EMAIL PROTECTED] P: +1-250-277-1621 M: +1-250-303-1831 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
