Re: [Matplotlib-users] Python issue of Computing in Science and Engineering available

[Fernando P. <fpe...@gm...>]

On 4/25/07, Christopher Barker <Chr...@no...> wrote:
> Fernando Perez wrote:
> > This explicitly mentions author website redistribution,  as long as
> > the official IEEE version is used.
> >
> > Unless I'm misreading the above, I think it's OK for us to keep such
> > copies in our personal sites.  We can link to them from the scipy
> > wiki, though I don't think it would be OK to /copy/ the PDFs to the
> > scipy wiki.
>
> I assume you are referring to this:
>
> ""
> D. Personal Servers. Authors and/or their companies shall have the right
> to post their IEEE-copyrighted material on their own servers without
> permission, provided that the server displays a prominent notice
> alerting readers to their obligations with respect to copyrighted
> material and that the posted work includes the IEEE copyright notice as
> shown in Section 8.1.9A above.
> """
>
> IANAL either, but I'm not sure how they would define a "personal"
> server. Would a web page on a University server count, for instance? I"d
> think putting it on the Wiki would count. Key is that copyright is
> properly attributed.
>
> I assume there is someone at IEEE that you could ask.

Well, I simply interpreted 'personal' as "my personal page, on my
institution's servers", while I worry that physically uploading it to
scipy's servers, which are owned by an external entity (Enthought)
might land them in trouble.  I may be overly cautious here, but I just
didn't want to take chances.

Cheers,

f