[Fwd: Fw: License Change... Publican]

[Pamela Chestek]

Sorry I didn't respond to this sooner. As Richard suggests, we should 
make sure that the copyright license doesn't inadvertently extend to 
permit the use of the trademarks. My suggestion would be something like:

The text and illustrations of this document are licensed under a 
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. FEDORA and 
the Fedora Infinity Design logo are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc., 
registered in the U.S. and other countries.  For guidelines on the 
permitted uses of the Fedora trademarks go to [link].  All other 
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

I also point out that the current notice on the Fedora documentation 
says "All other trademarks /and copyrights/ referred to are the property 
of their respective owners."  To me, mentioning that there might be 
other copyright owners in the notice only creates questions, because it 
might cause a downstream user to wonder whether the CC license applies 
to the entire work.  Assuming we don't have anything that can't be 
licensed CC-BY-SA, then we should eliminate the confusion (and if we do 
have stuff that can't be licensed that way, then we have bigger problems).

Pamela S. Chestek
Senior IP Attorney
Red Hat, Inc.
1801 Varsity Drive
Raleigh, NC 27606
919-754-4473
pchestek at redhat.com


Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 12:55:55 -0400
From: Richard Fontana <rfontana at redhat.com>
To: For participants of the Documentation Project
<fedora-docs-list at redhat.com> Subject: Re: License Change... Publican


On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 12:28:13 -0400
Eric Christensen <eric at christensenplace.us> wrote:

 > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:24, Paul W. Frields<stickster at gmail.com>
 > wrote:
 > > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 12:15:57PM -0400, Eric Christensen wrote:
 > >> So we need to be able to display the information found on the CC
 > >> Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States page[1].  Does anyone
 > >> have any recommendations on how this is displayed?
 > >>
 > >> [1] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/
 > >
 > > Display where?  You mean in documents that have been built?
 > >  Wouldn't that just be a change in the publican-fedora package to
 > > the /usr/share/publican/Common_Content/fedora/*/Legal_Notice.xml
 > > files?
 >
 > Yes, which is what I'm talking about. We need to change that text.
 > Do we want to include the CC graphic there as well?
 >
 > >From an existing doc:
 > This material may only be distributed subject to the terms and
 > conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, V1.0
 >
 > to:
 > This material may only be distributed subject to the terms and
 > conditions set forth in the Creative Commons BY-SA, v3.0, license.

I would recommend changing the text further than that. That language is
taken directly from the OPL:

Proper form for an incorporation by reference is as follows:
Copyright (c) <year> by <author's name or designee>. This material
may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth
in the Open Publication License, vX.Y or later (the latest version is
presently available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/).

My recommendation:

This document is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.

That can probably be improved on. Also, you may wish to specify how
you want attribution to be given.

As a separate note, but raised in my mind because of this license
change, perhaps the subsequent reference to Fedora trademarks in this
Publican legal boilerplate should be accompanied by a pointer to the
Fedora trademark guidelines (to clarify that the stylized Fedora mark
and the Fedora infinity logo aren't themselves being licensed under
CC-BY-SA).

- RF


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