On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 07/04/2010 22:33, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: >> 1. Individual chapters are owned by their respective authors. > > Shouldn't that be editors? Even if there is a single author now this > will, hopefully, change in the future as refinements come from other > contributors. > > How are you crediting other contributions?
Good question, and one that we've kind of dropped. For example: Matt Jadud did a *ton* of eleventh hour review, and his name appears nowhere. Not sure how to remedy this other than an Acknowledgements page... >> Does anyone -- most specifically, authors -- disagree with this position? > > I'm not an author - so have no (significant) right to object. However, > it might be useful to say I don't object ;-) > > I assume RedHat don't want to be stuck with the full maintenance burden > of the textbook and therefore I do have a concern about managing the IP > of future contributions correctly. I've expressed this concern a number > of times before and don't feel it is helpful to do so again. Hopefully > the lawyers will be able to address these issues, or tell you there is > no concern (which is even better than jumping through legal hoops). I think we're actually ok with the maintenance burden for now, but maybe not forever, and this will be a topic for the lawyers. > Well done on getting this far. :) --g -- Educational materials should be high-quality, collaborative, and free. Visit http://opensource.com/education and join the conversation. _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
