[tei-council] licensing proposal approved

[Laurent Romary]

I'm delighted! Let me thank here everyone in the council for the very high level of the various ideas and contributions that lead to this decision.
Laurent

Le 17 oct. 2011 à 09:46, John Unsworth a écrit :

> Folks,
> 
> The TEI Board voted, at its meeting yesterday, to approve the Council's proposal:
> 
> - to favor a very open scheme which essentially claims attribution of the source
> - to account for the ubiquity of TEI content, which depending on the use it is made of ranges from textual content to more software-like content
> - to cover all TEI content made available by the consortium — excluding jTEI (which is CC-BY-ND) — namely website, specs, generated schemas and documentation, stylesheets, production tools, samples of all kinds, with a consistent licensing scheme, as follows: 
> 
> TEI licensing depends on the use made of TEI content which is dual-licensed eaither CC+BY or BSD-2. If using TEI produced content as data or documentation then this is licensed as CC+BY specifically http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ and the porting to localisations of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license where applicable. If using TEI produced content in the context of a software environment as part of the software, associated libraries, or processing, then this content is licensed as BSD-2, specifically the 2 clause BSD http://www.opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause license where applicable by law. Other licensing is possible if necessary, contact info at tei-c.org for more details.
> 
> John
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Laurent Romary
INRIA & HUB-IDSL
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