[Journal] Licensing of journal

[Daniel Ames]

Tyler although this is an open journal I'm in favor of using it to
help fund OSGeo if possible. So perhaps a bound copy that is sold for
a nominal fee at the conference is not a bad idea at all. - Dan

On 5/19/07, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) <tmitchell at osgeo.org> wrote:
>
> On 19-May-07, at 11:46 AM, Micha Silver wrote:
> >> Are you happy with the licensing side of it?
> > Well, by foregoing the more restrictive CC license which allows
> > only "noncommercial" distribution (http://creativecommons.org/
> > licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) we're allowing for someone to use articles
> > from the Journal in a commercial magazine, or to profit in some
> > other way with the help of an OSGeo Journal article - provided she
> > gives due attribution, and doesn't change anything.  As far as I
> > can envision, distribution of the Journal in a commercial context
> > would also further the cause of FOSS GIS, as well as exposure of
> > the publication. So why not? In short, I think your choice of the
> > by-nd CC license was correct.
>
> Precisely my thoughts as well.
>
> > On the wiki page, you've quoted verbatum the text of the license.
> > Notice that the third point, "For any reuse or distribution..."
> > mentions "...with a link to this web page". The intention, of
> > course, is a link to the creativecommons.org page, and NOT our
> > particular OSGeo wiki page. So I've made the word "this" an html
> > link to the creativecommons.org page.
>
> Thanks - good idea.
>
> Just so everyone knows, I've emailed all the contributors from volume
> 1 to gain their approval to apply the license in retrospect - it is
> looking positive.  I will add the CC logo and link to our wiki, web
> and journal pages shortly.
>
> Also note we are getting a good line up of Volume 2 articles.  I've
> also hoped we could have Volume 2 out by August/September.  Does
> anyone think we could/should try sooner?  My main interest is having
> it available for the FOSS4G event and, perhaps, consider selling (or
> giving away) a bound version of Vol 1+2 at the event.  Either way, it
> would be fun to have :)
>
> Tyler
>
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Daniel P. Ames, PhD, PE
Dept of Geosciences
Idaho State University
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