[Journal] Licensing of journal

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Markus' comment makes sense to me.  Anyone have a reason not to use  
this license for our work?
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

I am not concerned about non-commercial use, as long as there is  
attribution.  My main interest is in seeing projects promoted,  
regardless of whether someone sells an article that is already  
free :)  Make sense?

Tyler

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Markus Neteler" <neteler.osgeo at gmail.com>
> Date: May 16, 2007 2:15:05 AM PDT (CA)
> To: "OSGeo Discussions" <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available
> Reply-To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
>
> Congrats to all contributors!
>
> On 5/15/07, Allan Doyle <adoyle at eogeo.org> wrote:
>> Thanks Tyler - this is fantastic! I'm learning a lot already, reading
>> through it.
>>
>> It would be good to clarify the copyright on the journal. Right now,
>> on page 70, it says "all articles are copyrighted by the respective
>> authors", and that's probably as it should be. But it's unclear how
>> anyone could reproduce copies of the journal.
>>
>> For instance, is it ok to post a copy on another web site? Is it ok
>> to print 5 copies for a small office? Could the UN print and mail
>> copies to a number of field offices? Can copies be distributed on a
>> CD? etc. etc.
>>
>> I think this could be solved with a CC-Attribution-NoDerivs or maybe
>> the non-commercial version of that license that covers the entire
>> journal issue. (I can't look up the "real" CC license version, their
>> site seems to be suffering some malady right now).
>
> This should be the link:
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/
> Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
>
> I wonder if this is permissive for translations. We need to select a
> licence (and urgently add it to the site, better also in the PDF)
> which supports translations.
>
> Here is the shopping list of license:
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
>
> Markus
>
>> Then people could print entire copies but would have to get
>> permission from the authors to make copies of individual articles.
>>
>>         Allan
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Tyler Mitchell
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