[Koha-devel] Koha Documentation Structure
Andres Tarallo
tarallo at ort.edu.uy
Mon Oct 4 10:59:56 CEST 2004
MJ Ray wrote:
> Here's my worries about your statement:
>
>> "This document is copyrighted (c) 2004 by <your name here>. Unless
>> otherwise stated, Koha documents are copyrighted by their respective
>> authors.
>
>
> I'm not entirely sure that "to copyright" is a verb. If I remember
> correctly, copyright is a property of a creative expression which
> exists automatically in Berne Union states and does not require a
> distinct action to create it.
It's not bad, but certainly it can be better. You license something, and
you hold a copyright onto something.
>> Koha-related documents may be reproduced and distributed in
>> whole or
>> in part, in any medium physical or electronic, as long as this
>> copyright notice is retained on all copies.
>
> [..]
>
> Hope you don't mind, but I'd really rather we avoided making something
> non-free. It doesn't really seem necessary to make a new licence as
> there are enough out there already. By far the most common case of
> non-free software seen on debian-legal is people creating their own
> copyright licences and getting it "a bit wrong" or overlooking something.
>
> Surely we can pick one or two known free software copyright licences
> which express the authors' wishes?
This could be the besto solution, something like the "contract" that
debian devoleprs have.
Andres
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