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Make it more obvious that GEMINI is released under CC-BY #67

Closed PeterParslow closed 2 months ago

PeterParslow commented 3 years ago

At present, the way GEMINI is licenced is only mentioned in two places (that I can find):

https://www.agi.org.uk/uk-gemini/ - the "versionless" home page; that's actually incorrect: CC-BY only applies from 2015 GEMINI 2.2

https://www.agi.org.uk/gemini/40-gemini/1051-uk-gemini-v2-2-specification-for-discovery-metadata-for-geospatial-resources/ - which I guess is "officially" the first page of GEMINI, but it's no longer the one people are likely to read first!

Suggestion, add the CC-BY attribution to the bottom of each GEMINI 2.3 page, and move it to the GEMINI 2.2 & 2.3 paragraphs of the "versionless" home page.

This came up while presenting GEMINI to the Open Standards Board.

archaeogeek commented 2 years ago

@PeterParslow Happy to request a change to the wording of https://www.agi.org.uk/uk-gemini/ to clarify the licensing of Gemini and also to point people to GitHub. Do we also need to add something to https://www.agi.org.uk/agi-uk-gemini/?

PeterParslow commented 2 years ago

The change at https://www.agi.org.uk/uk-gemini/ would either be quite subtle, or reflect a policy decision by AGI. The reason I say this is that it is only GEMINI 2.3 which has been released under CC-BY. Previous versions were released under AGI copyright terms (not in my opinion much different).

I guess it would be useful to add a little to the WG description at https://www.agi.org.uk/agi-uk-gemini/. Perhaps add "The group works at https://github.com/agiorguk/gemini" or some such.

archaeogeek commented 2 years ago

How about we go for something like:

UK GEMINI (Geo-spatial Metadata Interoperability Initiative) is a set of metadata elements for describing geospatial data resources. The current version, Gemini 2.3, is provided free of charge by the AGI for the benefit of the GI community, under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY). It is maintained by AGI's GEMINI Working Group who can be contacted at https://github.com/agiorguk/gemini.

archaeogeek commented 2 years ago

Which version of CC-BY is Gemini licensed under?

PeterParslow commented 2 years ago

AGI Council made the decision in March 2015. I'm not sure how detailed that decision was.

https://www.agi.org.uk/gemini/40-gemini/1051-uk-gemini-v2-2-specification-for-discovery-metadata-for-geospatial-resources/ specifies CC-BY 4.0, which appears to still be the current version.

PeterParslow commented 2 months ago

I see that the new AGI website states that GEMINI 2.3 is released under CC-BY 4.0

PeterParslow commented 2 months ago

https://github.com/agiorguk/gemini/pull/156 should resolve this

archaeogeek commented 2 months ago

Confirm fixed on dev branch