[OSGeo-Edu] Subversion instructions and licensing

[Arnulf Christl]

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Charlie Schweik schrieb:
> Hi Edu folks,
> 
> 1) SUBVERSION INSTRUCTIONS. Thanks to Helena Mitasova and Marcus Neteler
> we now have directions on how to use the OSGeo Subversion version
> control system. See (and consider bookmarking) [1]. I've also revised
> our group's initial OSGeo page to reflect this new option for
> contributing content. This is another step toward our goal of having a
> functioning "new derivative" system.  I hope some of you will be
> consider moving your content to this platform and then adding (or
> revising) your educational inventory entry to point to the location of
> your files on subversion. If you do so, please let me know so I can blog
> about it! Also let us know or revise the wiki page if the instructions
> need some further elaboration.
> 
> 2) LICENSING ISSUE. We have never settled on a suggested Creative
> Commons license that we all use in this capacity. I'm thinking we should
> try and settle this now. I recall a discussion last year but don't
> remember what license(s) were suggested. Questions:
> 
> Should we consider Attribution, Share Alike?
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
> Or is there a more business friendly option that we'd want to use?
> Is there a license for documentation that is used by OSGeo software
> projects?
> 
> Thanks all!
> 
> Charlie
> 
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Subversion_edu_instructions
> [2] http://www.osgeo.org/education

Charlie,
there have been several whacks at licenses for Edu material and it ended
somewhere along GNU FDL and CC.

My personal bias nowadays tends to the
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ as it is less restrictive
than by-sa. In my opinion GNU FDL alos does a good job, there is no
commercial restriction in its use either. It does become a little
awkward once you need a lawyer to go through a problem because GNU FDL
is complex.

Maybe we should simply go down the same road as we did with software
licenses where we say that any license approved by the OSI is good for
us. For Edu material we want to extended this to include the Creative
Commons family.

Maybe we can then use this page [1] to finalize the topic and then sift
through all other pages making references to licenses but being unclear:

Best regards,
Arnulf.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Appropriately_Licensed_Material

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Arnulf Christl
Spatial Systems Architect
WhereGroup www.wheregroup.com


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