Re: [Gramps-devel] Copyright options for GRAMPS generated reports

[Don A. <don...@co...>]

John Stoffel wrote:
> Don> 1) Standard copyright ( copyright assigned to person who
> Don> generated the document)
> 
> Isn't this now implicit?  At least here in the US it is... not so sure
> about other countries.  

Well, that is part of the problem - I don't know what the rules are in
other countries, and more than half of the GRAMPS users are not in the US.

And my understanding is that the default in the US is "all rights
reserved", which may not be what someone wants to do - especially if
they want to share information. I'm not really a copyright expert :-)

> Don> 2) No copyright notice
> 
> Default I would think... except maybe for web reports?

This is currently the case. I just don't know if this is the right thing
to do.

> Don> 3) Creative Commons 
> 
> Fine by me.  Maybe the key question is what should the format of the
> copyright tag line be?
> 
> Just the standard format:
> 
> 	Copyright 2005 by John Stoffel
> 

I just looked up the U.S. standard, which is defined at
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#noc

Looks like the word "Copyright" is not needed if the © symbol is used.
So, it looks like the recommended format would be "© 2005 John Stoffel"

However, do we need different formats for different locations?

Thanks for the comments.

Don