Re: [Geotools-devel] CONFIRM: Your article license

[Tyler M. (OSGeo) <tmi...@os...>]

I wouldn't suggest changing your documentation license just to  
satisfy our 2-3 requests per year (unless you really want to).  If  
you can just agree as a PMC to allow our Journal team to re-license  
content as needed then we will be fine.  We just want to be able to  
redistribute the announcements you contribute to the Journal under  
Creative Commons, as described here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Journal_License_and_Guidelines

Hope that helps,
Tyler

On 28-May-07, at 1:12 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:

> Hi Tyler is there a license we could use that would make this easy  
> for you? We are open to your suggestion here.
>
> Jody
>> Yes it is something you need to respond to, as long as you are  
>> going to continue to provide Developer Announcements to the  
>> Journal by referring us to content you have online on that site.   
>> While the GeoTools website has one license, we are re-publishing  
>> your content under another one (CC-by-nd).
>>
>> I am asking that your PMC (as copyright holder) consider granting  
>> us permission to re-license it for publication in the Journal and  
>> for future translation.  If it's a problem, then we can probably  
>> live with it - but it is no going to be easy for us to deal with  
>> parts of the journal under a different license - then we can't put  
>> the entire Journal under a single license.
>>
>> This is obviously more of a concern for longer journal articles  
>> that share more intellectual property, than it is for project  
>> updates, but it would be good if we could relicense your updates  
>> as well.
>>
>> Make sense?
>> Tyler
>>
>>
>>
>> On 28-May-07, at 9:46 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Tyler:
>>>
>>> Is this something I need to respond to? Currently GeoTools  
>>> documentation is under the following license:
>>> - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOT/1.3+Documentation+License
>>>
>>> Subject to the same "let's sort it out" issues as our code base.
>

Tyler Mitchell
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