[Journal] Licensing of journal

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

All good points Micha, thank you.

> Furthermore, as others mentioned, the question of translations need  
> to be addressed. Is a translation a "derived work"??

Yes, translation is considered an "adaptation" or a derived work - so  
the "no derivatives" clause would not allow it, unless express  
permission is given by the author.  I still prefer that license  
though, so that portions of articles cannot be taken out of context,  
re-mixed or modified for some other purpose without someone talking  
to the author first.

We could have contributors agree to the "Attribution - No  
Derivatives" license when they submit articles, but expressly give us  
permission to translate the document.  So, they are protected  
generally, but we have flexibility to translate to other languages on  
their behalf.  This also allows us to be the main place to host/ 
manage the content for others who want to reproduce/distribute it.   
Naturally this will maintain all rights for the author as well.

See any holes in this theory?

> 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.

Good idea - let's start a wiki page on this and add ideas when they  
come up.  I started putting up some thoughts here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Journal_Guidelines