Sounds good to me. Thanks for chasing up existing style authors for re-licensing.
Regards, Rob. On 3 January 2012 23:55, Charles Parnot <[email protected]> wrote: > I am all for it. It seems very reasonable, and while it may keep a few styles > out (?), it makes it much easier to use those styles without extra friction. > > charles > > On Jan 3, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Rintze Zelle wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> As of this moment, all the CSL styles in the style repository at >> https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles are registered under a >> single license, using the exact string "This work is licensed under a >> Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License: >> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/";. >> >> I added the license to styles that did not carry one, updated older versions >> of the license, and replaced ported variants by the unported version. I got >> permission of the style authors who had released their styles under by-nc-sa >> licenses to switch to by-sa. >> >> Going forward I would like to require that any new style added to the >> repository should use Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (I already >> included this in our requirements: >> https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/wiki/Style-Requirements ). >> >> If anybody has an issue with any of these changes, please let me know, >> >> Rintze >> >> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Rintze Zelle <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]> wrote: >> > 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. >> >> I just came across this: >> http://discovery.ac.uk/files/pdf/Licensing_Open_Data_A_Practical_Guide.pdf >> (via http://twitter.com/#!/ostephens/statuses/75466458326511616 ) >> >> The JISC people are obviously interested in scientific publishing, so they >> might not mind giving some advice. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Write once. Port to many. >> Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create >> new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the >> Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev_______________________________________________ >> xbiblio-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel > > -- > Charles Parnot > [email protected] > twitter: @cparnot > http://mekentosj.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Write once. Port to many. > Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create > new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the > Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev > _______________________________________________ > xbiblio-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
