revOnline and Open Source

Dr. Hawkins dochawk at gmail.com
Thu Aug 1 10:22:12 EDT 2013


On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Kevin Miller <kevin at runrev.com> wrote:
> I think most of the people sharing on revOnline are happy for their ideas
> to be used, otherwise they wouldn't have uploaded the stacks. However I do
> agree that some legal clarification is a good idea. How about we state
> that everything on revOnline is automatically public domain, *unless* the
> author of the stack places a clear notice on the stack that declares
> copyright and an alternative license of their choice (they can use
> whatever they like but only if they say so clearly)?

You'll still need to clarify between pre-policy and post-policy uploads.  You
could also make selecting a language tag (Pub. Domain, BSD, GPL, creative
commons, other) a mandatory part of the upload process.
-- 
Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
(702) 508-8462




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