hey,
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 17:36 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Ross Gardler wrote: > > + TOS as an org. We're not there yet, I don't think. > > + FLOSS Manuals as an org. I don't know that FM exists as a legal > entity either, since the copyrights seem to mostly be owned by > Adam Hyde. > The only copyright that is assigned to me is for chapters I created (I would say that is about 2% of the total chapters in FM). Please see the credits section of each manual to determine who owns the copyright for the chapters in that manual. FM is a Stichting (Not-for-Profit) Foundation based in Amsterdam). I'm happy to sign any agreement on copyright on behalf of FM to help you guys get closer to 'go'. :) adam > + Some company. I'd like to avoid that. > > + An individual. I suppose this could be me, or Adam Hyde of FLOSS > Manuals. > > None of these options seem particularly appealing. It's a tricky problem. > > Since we've all agreed that the license will be BY-NC-SA, it's a trivial > matter to reuse the content you write if you sign away your copyright. > It does, however, mean that you would lose the right to dual license that > content -- if, for instance, you also wanted to sell the rights to your > chapter to some Linux magazine or something. > > The first question, though, is a simple one: authors, are you willing to > assign your copyright to some single entity? If the answer is yes, we can > figure out what entity that should be. If the answer is no, then we're > basically saying "no CLA, so sorry Ross." > > Input welcome (and, in fact, required) from authors on this question. > > --g > > -- > Computer Science professors should be teaching open source. > Help make it happen. Visit http://teachingopensource.org. > _______________________________________________ tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos -- 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
