On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 23:15 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: > 2009/8/23 adam hyde <a...@flossmanuals.net>: > > how does dual license sound? (ugh..i hate these license thingys)... > > I can't speak for the community as a whole, so my comments are only my > own. Since we already discussed and agreed on a CC-BY-SA licence I'd > much rather stick to that. I don't see any need to dual licence. I > could be persuaded if we were talking about a licence that was > appropriate for text, or if there were a need to use some other > licence. But dual licencing under the GPL makes no sense to me at all > - it will only serve to confuse things in my opinion.
well, we like to keep it in gpl as then the material can be used in other manuals/textbooks within fm...this is a big advantage to others. > > What do others think? > > > as for the copyright - yes it can (and will) be reassigned...dont worry, > > FM is not out to own everyones copyright, and nor am I. The default is > > that whoever creates a chapter gets the copyright. if u like i can make > > all copyright for the manual to the 'TOS Authors' or some > > such...whatever you like, just let me know > > We still need to figure out the contributor agreements here, which > will allow us to decide who is to hold copyright on the collated > materials. It's fine to leave it as it is right now. The key thing is > that we can change it when we know what we want to change it to. > ok > I'd like to get this stuff sorted out so that we can actually start > contributing content. > ok... if you really want just cc, i will set it up like this, but it would be cool if you would consider dual licensing the material adam > Thanks. > > Ross > > > > > adam > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 15:06 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: > >> 2009/8/12 adam hyde <a...@flossmanuals.net>: > >> > >> > There is a book ready for you here: > >> > http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/PracticalOSSEngineering > >> > >> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/PracticalOSSEngineering/Credits > >> indicates that the licence for the text if GPL2 which is a software > >> licence and entirely unnacceptable (at least to me). We have already > >> agreed that we will use CC-BY-SA. > >> > >> Furthermore, the copyright notice says "Copyright : © adam hyde 2006, > >> 2007, 2009 (GPL)" Again, this is unnacceptable (at least to me). > >> > >> I assume that this is a result of the default settings and can be > >> resolved, but how? Surely things like copyright can only be changed by > >> the owner of the document. > >> > >> Ross > > -- > > Adam Hyde > > Founder FLOSS Manuals > > German mobile : + 49 15 2230 54563 > > Email : a...@flossmanuals.net > > irc: irc.freenode.net #flossmanuals > > > > "Free manuals for free software" > > http://www.flossmanuals.net/about > > > > > > > > > -- Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS Manuals German mobile : + 49 15 2230 54563 Email : a...@flossmanuals.net irc: irc.freenode.net #flossmanuals "Free manuals for free software" http://www.flossmanuals.net/about _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
