On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 09:03 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: > As usual I will be unable to attend the call. However I would > appreciate it if the legal situation for the book is discussed. Until > these are resolved I (and possibly others) are unable to contribute. > We have agreed, as a community, what the licensing model is to be but > we have not put any structure into place to ensure that we can > accommodate that. > > Summary of issues: > > a) licence on FLOSSManuals does not reflect licence agreed by > community (and is a licence not recommended for text by its own > authors http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhyNotGPLForManuals)
there is no issue here. I said on this list and to greg, you can use whatever license you want. > > b) copyright is being accredited to an individual (not enforceable in > many parts of the EU) > this is not an issue. i said on this list and to greg, i will give the copyright to whoever you want me to > c) copyright is (to all intents and purposes) assigned to the chapter > author rather than licenced by contributor as agreed here this is not an issue. i said on this list and to greg, do what you want with attribution adam > > This is a ***blocker*** for me as a contributor. We have something > like 50+ QAd articles ***already written*** and another 30+ written > but not QAd. These resources span the majority of the proposed > chapters and include supporting interviews and case studies. We > publish around 15 new articles every year. I have scheduled half a day > every week of our content editor (who is a professional content editor > with 20 years experience) to work on integrating our work into the the > book/ > > The book would be considerably further advanced if we were to resolve > these issues. > > For my part I don't care who owns the copyright in the collective > works, but I need to be able to show our lawyers that the work is > adequately protected under British law, that is I need to show that I > have only licenced our contributions to the book and thus I can > continue to use our work in any way I desire. > > Having it licenced by to us is not sufficient for our legal team. We > need to retain copyright in our own materials and we need that to be > represented in the legal documentation. This means we need contributor > licence agreements as does any such project. > > I have volunteered to manage this process on behalf of the community, > but we need to get the process in place before it can be managed. As > soon as we agree who the copyright will be assigned to I will have the > CLA drawn up. Those who don't care and are happy to assign copyright > to the copyright holder can just proceed - the rest of us will need to > submit a CLA. I will handle the paperwork and, if necessary, I will > provide the University of Oxford as the owner of the copyright - there > will be no further paperwork required in this case as OSS Watch > already has the necessary infrastructure set up. > > Please note, this is not a "will write" but a "have written", situation. > > Ross > > > 2009/9/14 Chris Tyler <[email protected]>: > > > > Just a reminder that there's a TOS conference call Monday (Sept 14) at > > 15:00 UTC (11:00 EDT). We need to discuss (and invest some energy in) > > some of our initiatives to make them succeed. > > > > Call info including codes is at: > > http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/TOS_Conference_Call > > > > Proposed agenda is at: > > http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/TOS_Conference_Call/2009-09-14/Agenda > > > > -Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tos mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > > > > > -- Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS Manuals German mobile : + 49 15 2230 54563 Email : [email protected] irc: irc.freenode.net #flossmanuals "Free manuals for free software" http://www.flossmanuals.net/about _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
