Re: [Fsfe-uk] Re: ECF/ESF

[Graham Seaman]

Hi Stuart,

One more typo, in the last para:
'avaliability of the source code'

Stuart A Yeates wrote:

> > - translation: could the very specific mentions of 'students' be 
> > replaced with some more general term (eg. end users)
>
>
> We're funded to provide open source advice to higher and further 
> education.
OK, that's fine.
However, I like your document  and would like to  put a slightly 
expanded version  which  has been  edited to remove  specific
mentions of  'students' on  my own site.  This is a wiki with a default 
license of 'public domain'. What would the best way to
deal with this be?

1. I could edit your document and put a specific notice on it: 'unlike 
the rest of this site, this page is copyright the University of Oxford 
and under the GFDL'. I don't understand the GFDL well enough to 
understand whether this would be ok (eg. would my wiki pages count as 
'end pages' ), and I don't really want to end up with a load of 
different licenses on one site..

2. You could look at my version before I release it, and if happy that 
Oxford University did not need any claims over it,
explicitly relinquish copyright claims over my particular version. 
However, I suspect you would not have the authority to
do that legally?

3. I could edit your version  then place my version in the public domain 
trusting the university would not sue me.  I'm pretty
sure it wouldn't, but I don't like doing this (and I would feel I had a 
moral obligation to put a  link to the original anyway,
which would make it very easy for them to sue if they ever wanted to)

4. I can write a completely new version from scratch, which is going to 
be extremely hard to do now I've read yours.

ideas?

cheers
Graham