Hi Andrew,
It's a nasty situation and it's particularly irksome that this
uncertainty hinders free development and doesn't help the user
a thing.
Frank
Hi,
I've been reading along silently and now I would like to make a comment.
What the heck is all the fuss about?
Look, why is this an issue at all - if you post to a public wiki it is
in the Public Domain - maybe I am being naive but here is how I feel:
maybe someone will come along and use something that I posted to the
wiki in their own work - great!
That was why I took the time to make postings there in the first
place, to give away some information that someone else might find
useful. The operative terms there being 'give away' and 'useful'.
Excellent. That's how you and I feel and it would be great if
everyone feeled that way. But you cannot be sure, so you need to
codify the situation to be on the safe side. Otherwise the project
may run into a situation where it gets lawsuited because of copyright
or license infringements. The legal situation is such that if there
is no license attached to content you need to ask the content owner/
copyright holder for explicit permission to use the content.
Just my perspective on this, after all the name is OO.o not OO.corp -
isn't it?
I wish it was so simple. And it would be if there were no
attorneys involved (and that's my favorite wishful thinking).
Actually, license and legal is an issue even with non-commercial
institutions. Wikipedia has copyright and license terms as well.
Frank
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