Hi Jean, *, Am Sunday 07 December 2008 00:17:36 schrieb Jean Hollis Weber: > Andreas Mantke wrote: > > I think, that's okay for all authors inside OOoDocumentation and > > OOoAuthors. But we spent our own money (for hardware, electricity etc.) > > and the project resources costs some money (okay: sponsered). Therefore > > we should rethink, if there is a way to prevent the use of the created > > PDF (from the website) to print books. > > Even if we could do that, I would not want to, because it goes > completely against the spirit of open source and creative commons. >
I think open source works best, if there is not only a one-way street: consuming. The spirit of open source includes giving something back to the community: e.g. a little piece of work, time, hardware. > BTW, the PDF being reprinted is the one available from the Lulu website, > not the one from the OOo Docs website. I could remove it from Lulu, but > it's a bit late for that to make any difference. > Yes. But I guess, we should rethink our practise for the future. Maybe there are better solutions to avoid such business without giving something back to the community. Regards, Andreas -- ## Content Developer OpenOffice.org: lang/DE ## Freie Office-Suite für Linux, Mac, Windows, Solaris ## http://de.openoffice.org ## OpenOffice.org Portable: http://oooportable.org ## Meine Seite: http://www.amantke.de
