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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