On Wednesday 05 November 2008, Jason Grout wrote: > Martin Albrecht wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 November 2008, Jason Grout wrote: > >> Martin Albrecht wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 05 November 2008, Ronan Paixão wrote: > >>>> Em Ter, 2008-11-04 às 17:44 -0800, William Stein escreveu: > >>>>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Ronan Paixão > >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> > >>> wrote: > >>>>>> There are no talks from 2008. Somewhere there should be instructions > >>>>>> on how to get files there (who to send to). I noticed there have > >>>>>> been quite some talks around since I started watching this list. > >>>>> > >>>>> It would likely be better to start a page on wiki.sagemath.org. > >>>>> Could you do so? Then Harald Schilly (sagemath.org webmaster) > >>>>> could add a prominent link to that page. > >>>> > >>>> You mean on how to get files there or a page to aggregate the talks? > >>>> Because I, as a newbie to sage, don't know how to get files to be > >>>> served in sagemath.org. > >>> > >>> Hi there, > >>> > >>> go to http://wiki.sagemath.org and open an account (I think the link is > >>> in the northwest corner). Then you can start a new wiki page and upload > >>> the talks as attachment (there is online help in case you never worked > >>> with a wiki before). > >>> > >>> I would suggest to have a table with the following entries: > >>> - date > >>> - title > >>> - place (institution) > >>> - author > >>> - link to PDF > >>> - link to sources (optional) > >>> - intended audience > >>> - comments > >> > >> Maybe also the license of the talk (GDFL, Creative Commons, etc.). That > >> way people understand when they may use parts of a talk and when they > >> may not. > > > > Unfortunately you are probably right and one even is supposed to put a > > license on a bunch of slides. Somehow this feels like undermining the > > informal understanding that information is given to be used. What's the > > do-whatever-you-want document license? > > The absolute least restrictive is putting them in public domain. IIRC, > that basically means that you disclaim any copyright. According to the > Creative Commons website, this might be invalid outside of the U.S. > > A little more restrictive would be one of the Creative Commons licenses. > You can see a very simple, nice overview by going to > http://creativecommons.org and selecting "License your work" in the > upper right corner (on the green titlebar). > > One other thing to note: I think I recognized some of the slides in your > talk from some of the other talks. If someone copies some work out of > another talk, they need to be careful claiming (or disclaiming) > copyright (unless that other work is public domain). If the other work > is under creative commons or similar license, it might allow for copying > as well (but might mandate that credit be given).
That's exactly the kind of problems I meant when I said "unfortunately". I suppose my preferred copyright statement is something like this: "I don't care what you do with these slides and I happily provide TeX sources. You might violate someone's copyright though, but that is your problem." Don't get me wrong: You are of course right and I cannot make any copyright statements about my slides. In any case, licensing nontrivial source code is necessary but I really think that applying the same modell to a bunch of slides is overkill IMHO. Cheers, Martin PS: The style is modified from here: http://www.kde.org/kdeslides/ -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _www: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~malb _jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
