[ILUG] ILUG AGM Announcement

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Colm MacCarthaigh (colm at stdlib.net):

> Absolutely, but imo this would be a waste of time. Firstly, almost any
> contributer to the ILUG website is almost certainly going to understand
> the open-source philosophy - as indeed will the attendees of the AGM. At
> the suggestion, I would wager the majority of content authors for the
> website would have no problem with CC license and may apply it
> volunarily. Any people that don't probably have good reasons, and I
> don't think it would be a matter of them not understanding the ideas
> behind CC. 

Just a reminder:  The licences at CC are highly diverse, and many of
them are actually proprietary in various ways (by intent).  What I've 
found useful is the copyleft licensing I use in the WordPerfect for
Linux FAQ, http://www.tldp.org/FAQ/WordPerfect-Linux-FAQ/feedback.html :

   this work may be used freely under the Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
   licence, or, at the recipient's option, any later version. 
   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

(Actually, I dual-license that work using GPLv2 or later.) 

> The author retains copyright on their portions of it as written, and as
> long as the wiki is still the ILUG website I can't see a problem
> emerging.

Quite right.  Before anyone gets up in arms over losing property
interests through using one of CC's licences:  ain't so. 

When you (as copyright owner) issue one instance of a work under one
license, that doesn't prevent you from issuing others under as many
different terms as you wish.  It's a property attached to the work (as
with instantiation of objects).

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