On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 11:06 -0500, Karen Collier wrote: > As discussed at the Documentation Interest Group Meeting on December, 9, > 2009, I am calling for a vote on Documentation Licensing. Members of the > Documentation Interest Group and interested members of the Evergreen > Community, please vote yes or no on the following proposals by Monday, > January 4, 2009 by replying to this email on the Evergreen Documentation > mailing list ([email protected]). > > 1 - Official Evergreen Documentation produced by the Documentation Interest > Group should be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike > 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). > > 2 - Any code included in the official documentation produced by the > Documentation Interest Group should also be made available under the GNU GPL > (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). > > 3 - Official Evergreen Documentation may be made available under another > copy-left (http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/copyleft.html) open source > (http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd) license in the future with a majority > vote on the Evergreen Documentation List > ([email protected]) or comparable indication > of the Evergreen community's wishes. > > 4 - These same licensing terms should be applied to the Documentation Wiki. > Past contributors to the Documentation Wiki should be notified by emails sent > to Evergreen community mailing lists and to the email address associated with > their docuwiki account of the new licensing terms and given a reasonable > amount of time to request that their contributions not be included under > those licensing terms. > > 5 - By submitting documentation to the Documentation wiki or to the Evergreen > Documentation List after licensing terms have been decided and publicized, > contributors indicate that they (a) agree to these licensing terms, and (b) > to the best of their knowledge have the right to do so through copyright > ownership, permission from the copyright owner(s), and/or the licensing terms > of any documents that were modified or incorporated into their submission. >
I vote "yes" to all of these proposals. Congratulations, DIGgers, on getting a solid foundation in place (assuming that this proposal passes muster) for the Evergreen documentation. _______________________________________________ OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION mailing list [email protected] http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-documentation
