Re: Fwd: Plone documentation license

Hi Wichert-

This is something we've discussed on and off again for awhile. SteveM
is going to be your best source of info on this but I'll give you a
quick run down.

 who owns the copyright? the website footer says the foundation does,
>>  but there is no contributor agreement for documentation nor a set of
>>  terms you have to agree to when signing up for a plone.org account,
>>  which makes me believe the copyright is effectively not owned by the
>>  foundation but by the contributors.

Individual authors own the copyright as it stands right now.


>> * what is the intended license? I can not find any information in the
>>  documentation section itself, the plone license FAQ or anywhere else.

We intend to move to one of the Creative Commons licenses. I seem to
recall the doc team voted on one of them awhile back. Steve M will
have details on this.

Our current licensing (or lack of) is not ideal but most authors are
very flexible about giving permission to use their content. I usually
tell people to contact the author directly and get permission to use
the document (preferably in writing). I usually generally ask that if
you're going to use documentation off plone.org that you don't charge
for it and give credit where credit is due. (So don't turn around,
print it up, and sell it as a book, etc) Until we get moved over to a
CC license, this is the rule of thumb I tend to go by.

Can we help you get permission from authors for the documents you
need, Wichert? I'm guessing if you need this for a client then your
need is more immediate and you'd prefer not to wait for the doc team
to sort out licensing issues.

JoAnna



On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Matthew Wilkes<matt-HXAYKHn2vyY/[email protected]> wrote:
> Morning docteam,
>
> Please see attached query from Wichert Akkerman who is not on this list.
>
> Matt
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]>
>> Date: 20 August 2009 10:55:57 BST
>> To: Matthew Wilkes <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Fwd: Plone documentation license
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Plone documentation license
>> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:53:04 +0200
>> From: Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]>
>> To: Plone Docs List <[email protected]>, [email protected]
>> , Geir Bækholt · Jarn <[email protected]>,  Plone Foundation Board <[email protected]
>> >
>>
>> For a project I'm working on we want to produce documentation,
>> including
>> some basic instructions on how to use Plone. We would like to use some
>> of the content from plone.org/documentation as a basis but I could not
>> find any license information for them.
>>
>> Can someone please clarify:
>>
>> * who owns the copyright? the website footer says the foundation does,
>>  but there is no contributor agreement for documentation nor a set of
>>  terms you have to agree to when signing up for a plone.org account,
>>  which makes me believe the copyright is effectively not owned by the
>>  foundation but by the contributors.
>>
>> * what is the intended license? I can not find any information in the
>>  documentation section itself, the plone license FAQ or anywhere else.
>>
>> Wichert.
>
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