Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of smo/licensing/author-notification

Timestamp:

Sep 2, 2011, 5:27:52 AM (14 years ago)

Author:

Daniel Kahn Gillmor

Comment:

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smo/licensing/author-notification

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 {{{
-To: `$EMAIL`
-From: ???
+To: $EMAIL
+From: smo-relicensing@mayfirst.org
 Subject: Relicensing contributions on https://support.mayfirst.org/ 
-}}}
 
-You're receiving this message because you have contributed to `https://support.mayfirst.org/` using the OpenID `$OPENID`.  We appreciate your edits to the wiki and your use of the public ticketing system!
+You are receiving this message because you have contributed to
+https://support.mayfirst.org/ using your OpenID "%s"
 
-Each wiki edit contributed to {{{support.mayfirst.org}}} is owned by its author individually, but is licensed under a common license that enables and encourages re-use of the entire web site.  Recently, the core support team of MF/PL has discussed the political impact of licensing this content differently -- making it more free by dropping the Non-commercial clause. When the site was created, we initially used a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike{{{[0]}}} license.  As of August 2011, we're preparing to drop the Non-Commercial clause for new contributions to this web site{{{[1]}}}.
+We appreciate your edits to the wiki and your use of the public
+ticketing system!  This is a notice about an upcoming licensing change
+and a request for help re-licensing old content.
 
-Our hope is to track down and get consent from all of our contributing authors so that we can change the site's documentation to indicate that all wiki content (past and present) is CC-BY-SA. If you're OK with re-licensing your old contributions, put an "OK" next to your OpenID here:
+Why
+===
 
-{{{https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/smo/licensing/author-transition-approval}}}
+Each wiki edit contributed to support.mayfirst.org is owned by its
+author individually, but is licensed under a common license that
+enables and encourages re-use of the entire web site.  Recently, the
+core support team of MF/PL has discussed the political impact of
+licensing this content differently -- making it more free by dropping
+the Non-commercial clause.
 
-Re-licensing your old contriubtions is your choice, of course; if you prefer to keep the -NC- clause on the old content, that's your decision.  If you're not sure, we'd be happy to discuss it with you.
+When the site was created, we initially used a Creative Commons
+Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike[0] license (CC-BY-NC-SA).  As
+of September 2011, we are preparing to drop the Non-Commercial clause
+for new contributions to this web site[1], making new contributions
+just Attribution Share-Alike (CC-BY-SA).
 
-If you think there are serious problems with adopting CC-BY-SA for future contributions, please let us know as soon as you can, since this process is already underway.
+Our hope is to track down and get consent from all of our contributing
+authors so that we can change the site to indicate that all wiki
+content (past and present) is CC-BY-SA.  But we need past contributors
+to agree to this relicensing for it to happen.
 
-{{{
+What you can do
+===============
+
+If you are OK with re-licensing your old contributions, just put an
+"OK" next to your OpenID (%s) here:
+
+  https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/smo/licensing/author-transition-approval
+
+Re-licensing your old contributions is your choice, of course; if you
+prefer to keep the -NC- clause on the old content, that is your
+decision.  If you are not sure, or if you have major concerns, we
+would be happy to discuss it with you; just reply to this e-mail for
+private discussion, or come chat with us on IRC [2].
+
+If you think there are serious problems with adopting CC-BY-SA for
+future contributions, please let us know as soon as you can, since
+this process is already underway.
+
+Thanks!
+
+    -- your fellow MF/PL member dkg, on behalf of
+       the MF/PL support team
+
 [0] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
 [1] https://support.mayfirst.org/ticket/4562
     https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/smo/licensing
+[2] https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/chat
 }}}
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