[TOS] Textbook authors: Copyright Assignment, please respond
Ross Gardler
ross.gardler at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Thu Sep 17 22:29:48 UTC 2009
2009/9/17 Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com>:
> * This also requires a single copyright holder -- i.e. the party with whom
> the CLA is binding. Which would require all authors to sign away their
> copyright.
This is incorrect.
There is no need for authors to sign away their copyright, they need
only grant a sufficient rights to release the copyright under the
agreed licence. More information on how CLAs work is at
http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/cla.xml
As a community we already discussed and agreed that individual authors
will retain their copyright, so the CLA will *not* require copyright
assignment, only licence grants.
> Our options:
>
> + TOS as an org. We're not there yet, I don't think.
>
> + FLOSS Manuals as an org. I don't know that FM exists as a legal
> entity either, since the copyrights seem to mostly be owned by
> Adam Hyde.
>
> + Some company. I'd like to avoid that.
>
> + An individual. I suppose this could be me, or Adam Hyde of FLOSS
> Manuals.
+ One of the many universities we have represented here
+ Proceed without CLAs and without OSS Watch's direct contribution.
You can still take our content under a CC-BY-SA, it just means we
can't put it up there for you. Since our content requires molding into
a unified textbook the community may decide the effort is not worth
it.
Ross
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