On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Robert Knight <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Rintze, > > Apologies for not replying earlier, can I check that by CC-BY-SA, you > mean http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ ? > > In that case, I'm pretty sure that should be fine. We display the > original author (as specified in the CSL file) in the style browser > interface in the Mendeley client, we don't currently display any > licensing information there but I'm happy to add that.
See, this is the awkward thing about all this. I don't necessarily want my name to be displayed in clients. When I do put my name as a contributor on a style, it's only for convenience (so someone knows who to contact); not to assert any claim to the style. Rintze followed up with: > The main question is whether CC-licenses are applicable at all to something > like > CSL styles, or whether we should pick a software license. If everybody is > comfortable with CC-BY-SA, it'd like to make it the requirement for styles > hosted > in the github repo. > > We touched on this before, but we never came to a clear conclusion. We could > really > use some advice from somebody legally schooled. Yes; and preferably someone with experience with these specific licenses, and understanding of copyright law. Bruce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
