[tei-council] Fwd: TEI licensing issues

James Cummings James.Cummings at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Mon Sep 12 09:28:28 EDT 2011


For the record, these designs were definitely done by the 
designer there in Charlottesville and not by me. I had done some 
proto-mockups at some point that looked quite different and were 
much uglier.  A vague memory of that is probably what Stuart is 
remembering.

Credit where it is due,

-James



On 12/09/11 01:26, David Sewell wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Stuart A. Yeates wrote:
>
>> Now seems like a good moment to commend the TEI badges at
>> http://www.tei-c.org/About/Badges/ which I believe are the work of
>> James Cummings.
>
> Actually, the graphic design on the badges was done by a freelance
> designer named Bill Covert here in Charlottesville. Decision on the
> mottos to use came from Council a couple of years ago.
>
> David
>
>> cheers
>> stuart
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Laurent Romary<laurent.romary at inria.fr>  wrote:
>>> Even if I don't know when this message will go through (deep in the mountain where I am), I join my voice to Piotr's here. We nee to tell TEI users that we appreciate citation (like I said, forget about jurists (and bureaucracy) here, we speak about good practices).
>>> Laurent
>>>
>>> Le 9 sept. 2011 à 15:16, Gabriel Bodard a écrit :
>>>
>>>> I very much agree with Piotr's point here: keeping an attribution clause
>>>> on TEI output is not about enforcement or giving us the opportunity to
>>>> sue people if they forget to cite us, but just of generally expecting to
>>>> be cited and attributed. (By the same token, when would we ever enforce
>>>> a no-derivatives clause?)
>>>>
>>>> Multi-license ftw.
>>>>
>>>> G
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2011-09-09 14:03, Piotr Bański wrote:
>>>>>>> That would mean public domain, which might be fine for the TEI-C in this
>>>>>>> very context, though I'd say that at least the BY aspect is usually
>>>>>>> worth keeping.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> can you imagine where we'd ever enforce it?
>>>>>
>>>>> I wasn't thinking of this from the perspective of enforcement, I rather
>>>>> thought of putting a TEI stamp there and merely expecting it to get
>>>>> honoured and mentioned in attributions. As I said, public domain just
>>>>> for the generated schemas doesn't sound very bad to me, but a copyright
>>>>> + a permissive license (BSD, LGPL) somehow seems more fitting, though
>>>>> let me stress that it's just my impression.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dr Gabriel BODARD
>>>> (Research Associate in Digital Epigraphy)
>>>>
>>>> Department of Digital Humanities
>>>> King's College London
>>>> 26-29 Drury Lane
>>>> London WC2B 5RL
>>>>
>>>> Email: gabriel.bodard at kcl.ac.uk
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>>>>
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>>>> http://www.currentepigraphy.org/
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