[Otmi-discuss] Licensing OTMI Content

[Hammond, Tony]

Hi:

As far as referencing licenses from an OTMI document, there is this Atom
License Extension Internet-Draft which looks like it should do nicely:

    Atom License Extension
    draft-snell-atompub-feed-license-11.txt

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-snell-atompub-feed-license-11.txt

This allows a link to be placed to a license page in an Atom Feed or Entry
document as (and here I've also included a rights info element as well):

<link rel="license" type="application/rdf+xml"
      href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf" />
<rights>
         Copyright (c) 2005. Some rights reserved. This feed
         is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribute-NonCommercial
         Use License. It contains material originally published by
         Jane Smith at http://www.example.com/entries/1 under the
         Creative Commons Attribute License.
</rights>

(This example was taken from the above I-D, Sect. 2.3. "Example".)

Note that the I-D was approved by the IANA in May '07, see

    https://datatracker.ietf.org/idtracker/draft-snell-atompub-feed-license/

That's the easy part.

Now we just need a license. A license that presumably would allow for
non-commercial use with limited rights of redistribution. We want users also
to be able to reproduce text snippets along with any annotations as long as
there is appropriate attribution. We're currently looking into the problem
of how best to license our OTMI files but meanwhile would be interested in
receiving any suggestions or pointers as regards user needs.

Cheers,

Tony

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