Creative Commons License approved

[Edward M. Corrado]

Hearing no objections, The following licensing guidelines/action plan
have been approved for the Code4Lib Journal (note, I re-numbered them,
but otherwise made no changes). With this in mind, I am asking assigned
editors for issues 1 and 2 to contact the authors and ask them if they
will agree to the CC-BY licensee. Furthermore, assigned editors for
issue 3 should contact authors and inform them that their article will
be licensed under the CC-BY license. If you are an author for issues
1-3, feel free to take the lead and contact your assigned editor to
agree to the license..... Edward.

1) From Issue 3 on, we require the author of all articles to agree to
the CC-BY license.

2) Code samples included as part of the article (in-line or as
attachments hosted on our server) will be included under the CC-BY
license as part of the article. However, we very much encourage authors
to additionally license any included code under an open source code
license. Authors should let us know if they'd like to use an open source
license for included code, and we will note code licensing on the
published article.

3) Assigned Editors for articles in Issues 1 & 2 will contact the
authors and request that the authors to license the articles using the
CC-BY.

4) Update the Web site to reflect the license for each article. This
should be a simple template change for Issues 3 forward, but if for some
reason we can't get an author in Issue 1 or 2 to agree to a CC-BY, we
may have to do a little more work.

5) At the very least we need to have the authors of the articles in 1
and 2 agree to a license of some sort so that people know what the terms
and conditions are. However, I hope that everyone will agree to the CC-BY.

[Carol Bean]

Is there a standard(ized) request for the authors in issues 1 and 2?  Or shall we just forge ahead and see if something floats to the top? :)

Carol

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[Carol Bean]

nevermind.  I see a nice one already being sent out (by Ed) :P

Thanks, Ed!

Carol

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[Edward M. Corrado]

I'm not sure how perfect/standard either my issue 1 and 2 message, or
the one I sent to Andrew Bullen for Issue 3 is, but I tried to make them
as standard as possible so they can be reused with just changing the
article title and author names.

Edward

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