Fwd: Gwibber manual licensing
Ken VanDine
ken.vandine at ubuntu.com
Sat Apr 9 21:16:50 UTC 2011
Excellent, thanks for getting that sorted out!
--Ken
On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 15:43 -0500, Jim Campbell wrote:
> FYI, all. The authors from the Vancouver Loco team who wrote a Gwibber
> manual have graciously agreed to license it under a CC-by-SA 3.0
> Unported license. This means that content from it can be included in
> Gwibber proper, Ubuntu-docs, Fedora docs, etc. provided that we
> provide the original authors with attribution.
>
> Happy times. : )
>
> Jim
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jim Campbell <jwcampbell at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 3:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Gwibber manual licensing
> To: randall at executiv.es
> Cc: Charlene Tessier <frenchfortunecookie at gmail.com>, Tak
> <tishikawa at mittica.com>
>
>
> Thank you all very much!!!
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Randall Ross <randall at executiv.es>
> wrote:
> Jim,
>
> This message is to confirm that we have all agreed to
> relicense the document as follows:
>
> Creative Commons CC-by-SA 3.0 Unported
> ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ ).
>
>
> On behalf of UVLC and our documentation team, good luck with
> the Gwibber help documentation effort and keep up the great
> work!
>
> Best Regards,
> Randall.
> Ubuntu Vancouver LoCo.
>
> --
>
> Other ways to reach me:
> chat : rrnwexec at jabber.org
> sms : +16047713076
> http://randall.executiv.es/
>
>
>
> On 11-04-08 09:55 PM, Jim Campbell wrote:
> > Thanks very much, Randall!
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Randall Ross
> > <randall at executiv.es> wrote:
> > Jim,
> >
> > Thanks you for your inquiry. I will check with the
> > other contributors and get back to you shortly.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Randall
> > Ubuntu Vancouver LoCo
> >
> > --
> > Other ways to reach me:
> > chat : rrnwexec at jabber.org
> > sms : +16047713076
> > http://randall.executiv.es/
> >
> > On 11-04-08 08:11 AM, Jim Campbell wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I'm writing with regards to the Gwibber guide that
> > > the Vancouver loco team recently put together. I'm
> > > a member of the Ubuntu and Gnome documentation
> > > teams, and we have a new contributor who is
> > > looking to compose help for Gwibber so that it can
> > > be included with the Gwibber application itself.
> > > (This is because we can't ship application-based
> > > help in an ODT format.)
> > >
> > > It would be helpful for us if we could use at
> > > least some content from your guide, but your guide
> > > is licensed under an
> > > Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada
> > > license. The documentation for Ubuntu and Gnome
> > > (not to mention Fedora, Red Hat, and Wikipedia) is
> > > Creative Commons CC-by-SA 3.0 Unported
> > > ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
> > > ).
> > >
> > > Would you be willing to relicense the document
> > > under that license? I know that there are several
> > > people who contributed to that guide, but you are
> > > the one who's email address I was able to find. I
> > > expect that you would need to check with them,
> > > too.
> > >
> > > It is entirely up to you, but I thought I would
> > > ask. Also, I don't expect that we would copy your
> > > guide verbatim, but I'm sure you can understand
> > > that it would make it easier to at least include
> > > some content. Thank you very much for your
> > > consideration, and please let me know if you have
> > > any questions.
> > >
> > > Jim
> > > http://j1m.net
> >
>
>
>
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