[georss] Creative Commons

[Carl Reed OGC Account]

Allan -

Yes, this needs to be "hashed" out because as we move components of GeoRSS 
into W3C and the OGC, we need to deal with those organizations respective 
copyright and IPR policies. I also need to work copyright between W3C and 
the OGC for shared documents. I also have a very similar issue with a group 
in Germany that developed CityGML. They put their copyright on the document 
even though it is a GML Application Schema. In that case, we are looking at 
shared copyright with due attribution to both parties.

Yesterday, I posted a candidate GeoRSS White Paper for consideration by the 
OGC membership. I state several times that some of the material is either 
extracted from or a synopsis of the content on the GeoRSS web site. So, for 
this white paper, what do we do about copyright? The current OGC copyright 
is now consistent (yes, finally!) and not nearly as restrictive as it used 
to be. So, I would suggest, as with CityGML, shared copyright.

Thoughts welcome.

Cheers

Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allan Doyle" <adoyle at eogeo.org>
To: <georss at lists.eogeo.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 2:58 PM
Subject: [georss] Creative Commons


> The question came up today, our site is covered by a Creative Commons
> Attribution Share Alike 2.5 license, but we don't say what
> attribution to give, nor do we provide a contact address.
>
> I suggest that we say
>
> ===============
> All uses of this material must be accompanied by the following
> statement:
> "CC - Material from GeoRSS.org web site, used under Creative Commons
> Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License."
>
> That also means that any document which uses this material must also
> be available under the same terms. Please read the license!
> ================
>
> Or something like that. I think we really need a "licensor", and I'm
> not sure whether the licensor must be a legal entity (i.e. a person
> or a corporation) or whether it can be a group (the "GeoRSS
> Development Team").
>
> It might be good to hash this out quickly...
>
> Allan
>
>
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