wai2k
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12 years ago Look at what similar sites like GitHub do.
Open wai2k opened 12 years ago
wai2k
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12 years ago Look at what similar sites like GitHub do.
Legal issues
a. Liability – Authors and publisher probably have a duty of care and you probably need to include some form of disclaimer
Copyright and licensing – Do you have the agreement of copyright holders to publish, should this be in the form of a waiver (i.e. they surrender their rights) or a licence (they retain some control) the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/) England & Wales License would look like a good approach to me. I think it is important that any licence allows use in commercial products (which this version of the CC licence does)
You may feel the legal stuff is a bit of a bore, but best to get it sorted up front. I have seen much grief with successful project downstream when this has not been done. I also have some vicarious experience of WHO’s response when it feels its IPR has been abused (not that I think anything you have done is likely to get a negative response)