[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Now Available

[Allan Doyle]

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).

Then people could print entire copies but would have to get  
permission from the authors to make copies of individual articles.

	Allan

On May 15, 2007, at 10:54, Tyler Mitchell wrote:

> It is my pleasure to announce that Volume 1 of the OSGeo Journal is
> now available for your reading pleasure!
>
> http://www.osgeo.org/journal/volume1
>
> This is the first volume of the new Journal and includes many
> interesting articles, news and updates from our open source
> communities.
>
> We already have some content ready for Volume 2 and have learned many
> lessons along the way that will help the next volume be even better.
>
> A big thanks to the editorial team for their hard work in pulling it
> all together and to all the great contributions we received from
> writers, developers, users and project teams.  I'm excited to see that
> we can promote projects, educate readers and provide news/info all in
> our own professional publication.
>
> I hope you enjoy it!
>
> Sincerely,
> Tyler
>
> p.s. Please note that the Journal has an official ISSN number
> (1994-1897) that you can cite in your formal bibliographic references.
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