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osgeo discuss and education participants,<br>
I'm following through on trying to clarify OSGeo-Live documentation
licenses. Feel free to jump in and comment if you have anything
further to add to this discussion.<br>
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<td>Proposed copyright text for OSGeo-Live</td>
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<td>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:24:33 +1000</td>
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<td>Cameron Shorter <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com"><cameron.shorter@gmail.com></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:live-demo@lists.osgeo.org">live-demo@lists.osgeo.org</a>
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Below is proposed copyright text for OSGeo-Live. In summary:<br>
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Project Overviews will be Creative Commons By Attribution, CC-By,<br>
which means that they are free, and can be included into closed
documentation (similar to the more permissive Open Source licenses
like MIT).<br>
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Quickstarts will be Creative Commons By Attribution, Share Alike,
CC-By-SA,<br>
which means that all docs which extend or make use of the
Quickstarts will also need to by CC-By-SA as well, (similar to the
GPL license).<br>
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If anyone has objections to the license choice, and you have not
already mentioned them, please speak up now.<br>
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Also, feel free to suggest alternative wording for this page.<br>
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<h1>OSGeo-Live Copyright</h1>
<p>OSGeo-Live is composed entirely of free software, free data
and free documentation, allowing it to be freely
distributed, duplicated and passed around.</p>
<p>Project Overviews and Overview Translations, are provided
under a <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="reference
external"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative
Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License</a>.</p>
<p>Quickstarts and Quickstart Translations, are provided under
a <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="reference external"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</p>
<p>Documentation may also be available under other licenses,
as listed below.</p>
<p>Software on OSGeo-Live is available under various Open
Source licenses, as described on project websites, and
copied into the Project Overviews.</p>
<p>Data on OSGeo-Live is available under various Open
Licences.</p>
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<h2>Attributing OSGeo-Live Documentation</h2>
<p>As per the terms of the Creative Commons license, if you
include OSGeo-Live documentation into a new document, you
will need to attribute the authors using text similar to:</p>
<blockquote> This document includes [Project Overviews
and/or Quickstarts] from the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="reference external" href="http://live.osgeo.org">OSGeo-Live</a>
project which is created by OSGeo-Live authors, as listed
under <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="reference
external">Documentation Authors</a>.</blockquote>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> <em>If Quickstarts are included,
which are licenced under the `CC By-SA <a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"><http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/></a>`_
license, then the new document will also need to be
licenced under the `CC By-SA <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"><http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/></a>`_.</em></p>
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<h2>Documentation Authors</h2>
<p>The table below credits the creators for each of the
documents on OSGeo-Live.</p>
<p>TBD: Insert a table which includes:</p>
<p>Document, License(s), List of Authors and/or owners</p>
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<h2>Disclaimer</h2>
<p><em>The contents of OSGeo-Live are provided by the
copyright holders and contributors “as is” and any
express or implied warranties, including, but not
limited to, the implied warranties of the
merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are
disclaimed. In no event shall the copyright owner or
contributors be liable for any direct, indirect,
incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages
(including, but not limited to, procurement of
substitute goods or services; loss of use, date, or
profits; or business interruption) however caused and on
any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict
liablity, or tort (including negligence or otherwise)
arising in any way out of the use of this software, even
if advised of the possibility of such damage.</em></p>
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Cameron Shorter
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Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
Think Globally, Fix Locally
Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
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