On 13/07/11 14:09, Simon Cropper wrote:
On 13/07/11 11:31, Cameron Shorter wrote:
On 13/07/11 03:22, Simon Cropper wrote:
On 12/07/11 19:05, Cameron Shorter wrote:
Simon,
I'm ok with a variant on your points 1, 3, and 4.
Point 2 is likely to stump 90% of developers to the point of
procrastination, unless we can provide a link to a table noting what
licenses can be included in CC-By and CC-By-SA.
Do you know of such a table?
Check out Table 2 in the referenced PDF.
http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~trc/public/publications/jise06/
It is a bit old but could be a basis for expanding on.
CC to CC Comparison are shown here...
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#If_I_use_a_Creative_Commons-licensed_work_to_create_a_new_work_.28ie_a_derivative_work_or_adaptation.29.2C_which_Creative_Commons_license_can_I_use_for_my_new_work.3F
Simon, I'm not clear how to interpret your first PDF reference above. If
I understand correctly, all the Open Source Software licenses, and
public domain documents, can be incorporated into a CC-By and CC-By-SA
licensed documents. GPL, LGPL, MPL can be included into CC-By-SA
documents.
Is that your interpretation?
If that interpretation is correct, then I expect that the majority of
our Project Overview source documentation, if not all of it, would be
fine to be included into Project Overviews.
Cameron,
Unfortunately this table is a bit deceptive. Initially I took it as a
compatibility matrix but this is not the case. The authors are merely
stating the various attributes of CC licenses are good indicators of
openness and have ranked the FOSS licenses accordingly. All we can say
from this table is that most FOSS licenses require attribution, not
that they are compatible with CC-BY license (that would be too easy).
Sorry but this PDF was probably a red hearing.
I have conducted extensive searches for alternative resources but have
found nothing that would help. Essentially projects need to review the
license requirement of their content and see if it is compatible.
The problem is that a lot of projects have either not specified
anything for their documentation (so it falls back to 'all right
reserved') or their documentation appears to be, in-part, caught up in
the software license (e.g. GPL or MIT; although this appears only to
apply when the content is distributed with the software).
I have posted a thread on the Creative Commons mail list to see if
anyone is aware of such a compatibility matrix for open content
licenses. I will post back if I get some extra detail.
In the interim if people are able to specify the license that the
original work was released, we can make an educated guess based on the
deed whether there would be an issue. I am unable to do this for you
or for myself because most people have neglected to specify where they
obtained the material. The preliminary review of the websites and
primary documentation sources that were originally suggested as being
the primary source material for project overviews, identified more
problems than helped.
I presume that in this sector there would only be a small number of
open content licences to compare, so we should reach a watershed
pretty quickly and once a project identifies the license of the source
material you would be able to check against our draft compatibility
matrix.
So in short...
1. get projects to identify document sources and the license, if any,
that they were released under; and
2. We/I can look at the deeds to the licenses to see if derivatives
can be created from this work AND they can be re-licensed as CC-BY.
3. We/I can create a matrix similar to that used in the CC to CC
Comparison table referenced above.
Simon, thanks for all this research you are doing. I'd like to wait to
see where we get to with this research before going back to the communities.
I don't want to go and ask anything extra of communities until we
(OSGeo-Live) have a clear understanding about what we are asking for and
what our complete plan is. Once we have our house in order, we will be
in a better position to ask others to support us.
--
Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Director
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