A few things to consider regarding more specific copyright statements: 1) This approach will require a lot of back tracking work and time to track down original sources, dates, and licenses of all the sources.
2) In many cases this information came from secondary sources so it is difficult to track down the original source of some information. 3) Some authors contributed work from a number of sources into one document. In some cases those authors may not be active in the DIG so it may be hard to get the information on sources where they got their information. 4) Perhaps we will need more parameters on what is a source which could stand on its own. For example, a lot of information was taken from pages on the wiki. Is each wiki page a stand alone entity? Admittedly, these problems are probably the result of a failure to establish a good set of rules, guidelines and practices early on in regards to copyright, citations, etc... To resolve this issue going forward, perhaps we need a new set of rules and policies indicating that any documentation included from other sources needs to have a attribution statement sent from the original source added to the attributions appendix before being included in the documentation? Perhaps we need another DIG position -- "copyright coordinator"? Regards, Robert Robert Soulliere, BA (Hons), MLIS Systems Librarian Mohawk College Library [email protected] Telephone: 905 575 1212 x3936 Fax: 905 575 2011 ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Etheridge [[email protected]] Sent: May 16, 2011 5:29 PM To: Documentation discussion for Evergreen software Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Updating Attributions > Also if you have any questions or concerns about how we're handling > attributions and copyright at the moment, now's the time to speak up. > > Jason & Robert, did I leave anything out? I think we should be a little more specific with external sources that can stand on their own (as opposed to patches/changes directly against our documentation), like a citation. For example, Copyright © 2011 BC Libraries Cooperative "Sitka Evergreen Training Manual", originally published at http://docs.sitka.bclibraries.ca/Sitka/current/html/ and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license Copyright © 2011 Georgia Public Library Service & Equinox Software "The Acquisitions Module Evergreen Release 2.0.0", originally published at http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=the_acquisitions_module_ev.pdf and licensed under the Creative Commons, Attribute-Share-Alike license. What do you think? -- Jason Etheridge | VP, Tactical Development | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: [email protected] | web: http://www.esilibrary.com _______________________________________________ OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION mailing list [email protected] http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-documentation This E-mail contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the individual or entity named in the message. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited. If this communication was received in error, please notify the sender by reply E-mail immediately, and delete and destroy the original message. _______________________________________________ OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION mailing list [email protected] http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-documentation
