[WikiEN-l] Does this conflict with the GFDL?

[Theresa Robinson]

I just got the following message from the OpenCourseWare people here at
MIT.  They want to use a piece of writing of mine.  I already submitted
a modified version of the introduction to this document to Wikipedia.  It
looks like what they're asking should be ok (it says they want a
"non-exclusive" right to it) but I thought I should double check with
people here.

moink

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:11:36 -0500
From: Brett Paci <bpaci at MIT.EDU>
To: robinst at mit.edu
Subject: 16.885J Permission Request from MIT OpenCourseWare

Theresa Robinson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
robinst at mit.edu

Dear Publisher,

On behalf of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
OpenCourseWare program (“OCW”),  I am writing to ask your permission to
use the material (“Material”) listed below, which we believe is owned
by you.

MIT OCW is a Web-based electronic publishing initiative funded jointly
by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, and MIT and is described at http://ocw.mit.edu/.  Its goals
include (i) providing free, searchable, coherent access to MIT's course
materials for educators in the non-profit sector, students, and
individual learners around the world, and (ii) creating an efficient,
standards-based model that other universities may emulate to publish
their own course materials.

MIT is making this request in connection with Earll Murman’s course
entitled, 16.885J Aircraft Systems Engineering,  which will be
published on MIT’s OCW.  Specifically, MIT is requesting your
permission for a perpetual, royalty free, non-exclusive right and
license to use, reproduce, distribute, copy, translate and permit
others to use, reproduce, distribute, copy, or translate in electronic
format or in or by any other media now known or hereafter developed,
the Material.

If you would be willing to grant this permission, could you or an
authorized officer of your organization please sign the attached
license and return it to my attention.  We would be grateful for a
response by: 3/26/2004.

If you have any questions please contact me directly at 617-253-7913.

Sincerely,

Geoffery Wilson

Please use reference numbers listed in all correspondence.  Permission
is requested for the following:

Entire document
Citation X: A Case Study
  Ref #: 1213-5517-9194-6378

Robinson
Robinson's biography
Ref. # 1213-5517-9197-6384


Request #: OCW000001110