2009/9/14 adam hyde <[email protected]>: > ok! thanks for this Ross. Maybe I was too grumpy. it might have been the > lack of good coffee in my house at the moment. i promise i will go now > and remedy this situation :)
No worries. Email is horrible for these things. I'll make the same mistake here (probably already have). Enjoy your coffee. Ross > > adam > > On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 11:31 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: >> 2009/9/14 adam hyde <[email protected]>: >> > On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 11:00 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: >> >> Adam, >> >> >> >> These may not be technical issues but they are process issues. They >> >> need to be resolved before the University of Oxford (and anyone doing >> >> proper due diligence of IP) can contribute. >> >> >> > >> > >> > well then i appreciate if you would say that your org requires things to >> > happen in a certain order because of internal policy issues rather than >> > suggest that FM is blocking the way. from my perspective you were free >> > to write in FM from the day i set it up. >> >> Adam, >> >> At no point does my email say that it is FLOSSManuals that is blocking >> this work, I'm sorry if that is the impression you got. I am merely >> raising an issue that remains unresolved from before you joined this >> list and before we agreed to use the excellent FLOSSManuals platform. >> >> For the record, people should re-read my original mail replacing the >> occurrence of "FLOSSManuals" with "current work", no meaning is lost >> and any potential confusion should be removed. >> >> To make it easy for you here is the single sentence that mentions >> FLOSSManuals with this change applied: >> >> "a) licence on current work 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)" >> >> Thank you for offering the use of FLOSSManuals for this work. I think >> it is a great framework within which to do our work, but a technical >> framework does not protect and manage the copyright in the work, it >> can only provide the necessary tools to do so. It is copyright law >> that enables FOSS to remain FOSS, we should not be confusing good >> tools with good IP management. >> >> Ross > -- > 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 > > > -- Ross Gardler OSS Watch - supporting open source in education and research http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
