On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 13:26 +0100, Frank Peters wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > > As I pointed out to Aurélien, template creators must sign the JCA before > > their work can be considered. Wish it were not so but that is the > > current situation. I have heard from others that this situation is being > > examined for a change to a more open way to contribute templates et > > cetera. Hope it happens but right now we are stuck with JCA :-( > > I don't really understand why JCA is such a problem. It is a legal > requirement to stay flexible. The original contributor will *never* > lose the copyright for his/her contributions, he/she just shares it > with Sun being the OOo "umbrella" legal entity.
Not too surprized by your statement. For normal users, JCA is a barrier. If that makes no sense to you then I suggest that you ask around. > > This is also to protect the project from people infringing anyones > rights. Assume, that someone contributes plagiarized copyrighted > content to documents. The original copyright holder could make > the OOo project accountable for such copyright infringements if > there are no JCAs signed by the contributor where he/she assures > that he/she has the right to contribute that content. > Those wishing to contribute directly to the code base with templates et cetera can simply follow the directions given at http://contributing.openoffice.org/programming.html#jca and proceed. > Lastly, without one entity holding the shared(!) copyright > of the work, it would be practically impossible for the community > to change licensing or usage of the content since it would require > the explicit approval of each copyright holder. > > But I assume this has all been discussed before. > Many times. -- G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenOffice.org
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