Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: <snip>
That said, the document we eventually use from OOo may likely not be identitical to the one that DDGTS distributes for its other purposes. I'll surely make some mods, or Erwin will, or someone else. We'll comply, of course, with the PDL requirements, which are not that burdensome, as CVS tracks all changes, but to reiterate the doc we distribute that is branded OOo may well differ from the one you use for your company's purposes.
Hi Louis,
I understand the words you're saying, but don't understand why the position you're coming from feels right to you. ;)
I'll try and explain our point of view clearly, as I think you'll see why we feel what you're suggesting is "unfair" (wait till you've read it) to us, and *may* be to others who would consider contributing to BizDev.
We've hired Daniel (Carrera) to work for us, and his first job has been to create a brand new Case Study Worksheet so we can get good information from companies about why they decided to use OOo.
Thinking it would be a good idea, we added a "Contributed by DDGTS" (with small logo) text to the document, put it under a Creative Commons license, and donated it to the OOo Community so everyone else can use it to.
However, you're saying that for the OOo Community to accept it we *must* either place it under the JCA or the GNU PDL, and if we do that, have all mention of DDGTS removed from the document (apart from in CVS history) and with the OOo Community only using that result.
So... we get *no* credit for having hired Daniel and paid him to do the work.
That's the "unfair" point, and is not in good OSS style of giving credit where it's due!
To me that's just wrong. We're mentioned on the other documents/pages that we host/sponsor/pay-for, so what gives?
Is it because you're judging that the OOo Case Studies documents would be really well distributed, and for some reason feel it's unfair that DDGTS gets a mention (possibly worldwide) *from helping make it happen*.
As we both know, there's not (yet) a large amount of other businesses contributing high quality, professionally done, documentation to the OOo Community for this area of endeavour.
It seems like you want to remove a potentially important incentive to do so, and I feel that's a true shame, because it may encourage others to contribute as well.
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
-- Executive Director Digital Distribution Global Training Services Pty. Ltd. Premier OpenOffice.org and StarOffice Online Training providers http://www.digitaldistribution.com
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