[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Removal of articles.xml from website

[Sven Vermeulen]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:39:57AM +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> I know from Daniel that DW takes the exclusive rights to publish the
> articles for the first X months (I believe it was 6 months, but don't take
> my word on it). We are allowed to republish those articles later (as we've
> done with for instance an article about CVS), even in the form of a GuideXML
> document.
[...]

Okay, just to be certain I dug up an old mail from Daniel explaining the IBM
work.

Apparently, they are:
  - written as work for hire
  - property of Tenco Media Corporation or Westtech Information Services
  - Daniel is however allowed to republish them as he sees fit after 6-9
    months with no restrictions except clearly mentioning that the articles
    are property of beforementioned.

In the mail he states that we can republish his articles on Gentoo as long
as we put the following note in each document:

"""
The original version of this article was first published on IBM
developerWorks, and is property of Westtech Information Services. This
document is an updated version of the original article, and contains
various improvements made by the Gentoo Linux documentation team.
"""

So for Daniel's articles, this is no issue. However, we do need explicit
approval for the other articles by the authors.

I propose to start GuideXML'ifying Daniel's articles. I'll leave the details
on the gentoo-doc mailinglist. If anyone sees his or her name on the
articles page as being one of the other authors, mind contacting me with the
approval (or disapproval) of republishing the articles (with or without
modifications)?

Wkr,
      Sven Vermeulen

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