[tei-council] Licensing - ballot

[James Cummings]

On 01/10/11 08:46, Laurent Romary wrote:
> My count says: LR, PB, SR, SAY, EP, BB
> This is just one enough, but would like to have a hint from the others that they would not get completely depressed if we go in this direction. As we know, a majority may not reflect a shared opinion...

+1

While I agree with whoever it was who pointed out that the codicil 
sentence at the end of the BSD-2 licence (saying that the views 
expressed in the code/docs aren't necessarily those of the copyright 
holder) is completely ridiculous in the context of a standards-like 
body, I will vote for this formulation.

Specifically I agree with Lou's understanding that we should present 
BSD-2 and CC+BY licences stating that the former is for use of TEI 
objects as software and the latter as text and it is up to the user to 
decide which way they are using the objects.  To accomplish this, 
however, presents other problems.

If I'm understanding correctly this means that the XSLT stylesheets will 
need to have both a CC+BY notice and the BSD-2 licence because when I 
grab them you don't know if I'm going to be using them as documentary 
examples of over modularisation in a book about XSLT programming, or 
whether I'm going to be running them.

-James

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> Début du message réexpédié :
>
>> De : Brett Barney<bbarney2 at unlnotes.unl.edu>
>> Date : 30 septembre 2011 21:51:14 HAEC
>> À : TEI Council<tei-council at lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
>> Cc : tei-council-bounces at lists.village.Virginia.EDU
>> Objet : Rép : [tei-council] Fwd: kibitzing
>>
>>> On 30/09/2011 09:33, "Stuart A. Yeates"<syeates at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Laurent Romary
>> <laurent.romary at inria.fr>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Council. I would definitely like to follow Gabriel on this and ask the
>>>>> council to vote on the following statement (I know someone will find
>>>>> optimal en words afterwards):
>>>>>
>>>>> The council recommends adopting a double license combining BSD-2 and
>>>>> CC-BY whereby people who want to re-use text or data-like TEI-content
>>>>> should use CC-BY, and those who want to use the
>>>>> code and software-like content should use BSD-2.
>>>>>
>>>>> +1 LR
>>>> +1 SAY
>>> +1
>> +1 BB
>>
>>
>> Brett
>>
>> ------------------
>> Brett Barney
>> Research Associate Professor
>> Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of
>> Nebraska-Lincoln
>> http://cdrh.unl.edu
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