Hi Frank, *
Frank Peters schrieb:
Interesting discussion, and necessary, too. We need to look
at how we can make the wiki usable for documentation purposes
either by changing the licensing of the wiki or the docs.
I see no reason to change the licensing at the wiki, as there is no
explicit license.
If you like to use the wiki as tool for starting with documents (as
editing and changing is more easy there) simply put a licensing notice
to the relevant page. But you should do this when you create the page.
Changing a license after several people have contributed is a leghal
problem, as you need to ask all contributors if they agree to the
license change.
The Sun docs group is currently evaluating how we can get dev
docs onto the ooo wiki, but we're focussing on the technical
side, not the legal side. I'll send a separate posting next week
with some updates and details.
I would like to learn about compatibilities and incompatibilities
of the two channels (doc.oo.o and ooowiki). If the legal status
of the wiki is undefined this should be changed.
Why? The current status of the wiki is, that each contributor holds the
copyright of her contributions - and is free to put this under any license.
Given the technical nature of the wiki, each contributor agrees that her
work is published on the internet (at wiki.services.openoffice.org) and
that each page can be changed.
This does not imply that the content may be used elsewhere - unless the
contributor says so. This could easily be done by a license notice at a
wiki page.
We're shooting ourselves in the foot if we're unable to
set up a consistent licensing story.
As I already said - it would be great to have a perfect consistent
licensing. This would help to merge different materials. But this would
have some drawbacks. No matter what "our rules" are - you cannot merge
PDL and Creative Commons. So neither removing "PDL only rule" from OOo
website nor applying the same rule to the wiki would help.
Anyway: I strongly recommend that any documentation work that is started
at the wiki is put under PDL - if possible. This would allow integration
with current documentation.
André
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