By submitting material to the Web-CAT Cookbook web site ("the Cookbook"), you are agreeing to the following terms:
- Material that you submit to the Cookbook is licensed to the public under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1, as published by the Free Software Foundation, except as noted below.
- In order to contribute, you therefore must be in a position to grant the abovementioned license, which means that either:
- you own the copyright to material that you have submitted. This means that you can make whatever additional use of that material that you choose.
- you acquired the material from a source that allows the licensing under LGPL, for instance because the material is in the public domain or is itself published under LGPL.
Other contributors may edit, add to, and delete material from the Cookbook, including material that you have submitted. All material is revision-controlled, so previous versions are retained as long as practical. In the event of any dispute between contributors about material published on the Cookbook web site, the decision of the people named in WebCatEditorsGroup ("the Web-CAT Editors") regarding the disposition of the disputed material will be final.
- The Web-CAT Editors will obtain the exclusive copyright to any compilation of the material contained within this Cookbook. The Web-CAT Editors have the right to print, publish, distribute, and sell copies of such compilations as a book, and works derived from such a book, in printed form and in electronic media, to translate it, and to license others to do so, for the duration of the copyright in such book, in all languages, throughout the world.
Why Require These Terms?
We want to make Web-CAT accessible to the widest audience of educators, and one way to expose more people to it might be to get the Cookbook published and into bookstores around the world. We don't yet have a publisher for the Cookbook. However, we have taken the pre-emptive step of reserving some of the rights we think a publisher may want to protect their investment in publishing and distributing the Cookbook. We think the rights we have reserved are fairly minor, and we hope that any publisher we find will allow the book to be totally free.