[Journal] Licensing of journal

[Micha Silver]

Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:

> 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?
>
Makes sense to me as well. Do I understand correctly that releasing the 
Journal under the CC license actually supercedes what Allan Doyle 
mentioned below -

Right now, on page 70, it says "all articles are copyrighted by the 
respective authors"

Furthermore, as others mentioned, the question of translations need to 
be addressed. Is a translation a "derived work"??
It would have been more "proper" had we informed authors in advance that 
their work was to be released under CC.  Now is probably the ideal time 
to discuss and draw up a "guidelines for authors" list, which might 
cover questions such as licensing, and to what extent do we expect some 
connection to FOSS, etc.

Micha
> Tyler
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>>
>>
>> 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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