Re: [Schematics-development] hold off until the copyright can be clarified

[Noel W. <noe...@ya...>]

--- Tony Garnock-Jones <to...@ls...> wrote:

> We discussed a BSD/MIT/X11 licensing approach at the
> SchemeUK meeting 
> yesterday. I can't remember the details - can someone
> else provide a 
> summary?

Here are the main points I recall:

  - Only signed written statement is sufficient for
copyright assignment.  However online statements such as we
have are sufficient for licence assignment.  So authors
could licence the Cookbook to us at very liberal (e.g. BSD)
terms and we could then on-licence to a publisher

  - oss-watch (Oxford) and Open Advantage (Birmingham) may
provide free legal advice

I don't want to bias this advice - I'm just reporting what
I remembered, not commenting on it here.  I have a bunch of
other suggestions that I'll pass on on Monday when I'm back
home.

Someone should ask Nic on c.l.s. why he isn't a member of
Scheme UK, since he has a UK email address!

Noel

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