copyright notice (was: Re: [ANN] Cocoon Documentation Wiki)

[Diana Shannon <sh...@apache.org>]

On Wednesday, August 7, 2002, at 05:53  AM, Steven Noels wrote:

> Is this OK: http://outerthought.net/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=License ?

IMHO, No.

Technically, you need a copyright *notice*, preferably at the bottom of 
each page, similar to the web site, e.g.
   Copyright © 1999-2002 The Apache Software Foundation. All Rights 
Reserved.

It always helps to add a description/warning, as you have done. However, 
I would hesitate to craft something new, given the lack of direction 
from ASF on this issue and upcoming changes to the license (as discussed 
earlier on cocoon-dev). I would simply go by the rules governing 
committers, as indicated here:
   http://jakarta.apache.org/site/agreement.html

Perhaps a link to this page is sufficient. In this agreement you'll find 
the following:

<snip>
2. You hereby grant to the Foundation a non-exclusive, irrevocable, 
worldwide, no-charge, transferable copyright license to use, execute, 
prepare derivative works of, and distribute (internally and externally, 
in object code and, if included in your Contributions, source code form) 
your Contributions. Except for the rights granted to the Foundation in 
this paragraph, You reserve all right, title and interest in and to your 
Contributions.
</snip>

In other words, a doc contribution gives the ASF a free license to 
use/revise/distribute/display the contribution. Authors still retain 
rights to use/revise/distribute/display their works as well. 
Contributing to CocoonWiki (or directly to the Cocoon project via 
patches) doesn't prevent a contributor from using their own work 
elsewhere for other purposes.

-- Diana

Re: copyright notice (was: Re: [ANN] Cocoon Documentation Wiki)

[Steven Noels <st...@outerthought.org>]

Diana Shannon wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, August 7, 2002, at 05:53  AM, Steven Noels wrote:
> 
>> Is this OK: http://outerthought.net/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=License ?
> 
> 
> IMHO, No.
>
> -- Diana
> 

ok - will fix

</Steven>

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Steven Noels                            http://outerthought.org/
Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center
stevenn@outerthought.org                      stevenn@apache.org