Hi,
Sorry for entering this late; I don't always scan this list.
We actually have (naturally) visited this issue. Early this year, it
was brought to my attention that there was no really informative
copyright information and guidance for the wikis, and the idea I and
others had was that it would be best to extend the copyright of the
OOo site to the wikis. I wrote some language and put it on the wiki
footer after consulting with Stefan.
This language was a mistake :-)
André S. corrected it (some scorching involved--we both cite the same
issue, too) [0] and we returned to status quo ante. Except that I
think that there needs to be copyright info that is better than what
we have now but that we cannot retroactively determine the copyright
of existing material. The error of the previous language was that it
seemed to state that, though that was not my intention when I wrote it.
So, I'd be happy with posting something like, "Content posted after
[date] is licensed in accordance with OpenOffice.org's license
policy, which can be found at http://www.openoffice.org/
license.html. Content posted prior to this date is copyrighted Sun
Microsystems and the contributing authors."
In addition, I think we should update the license page as Jean
suggests to reflect the license that can be used on the wiki. The
Community Council is the one to adjudicate this.
In short:
* To propose the language I suggest above for new docs posted to the
wiki; and,
* To edit the License.html page to accommodate the wiki's (editable)
nature.
Best,
Louis
[0] http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=73421
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