Frank Peters wrote:
2) The license is PDL. Where is the copyright info kept? I'm thinking
of the sort of thing that's on the copyright pages of the Setup Guide
and the User Guide (and other PDL docs): Initial writer, contributors,
etc.
Copyright info is the one in the wiki:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Wiki:Copyrights
Contributing authors are available through the history function of
the wiki engine. If we have that conversion implemented this information
needs to be extracted and included in the printout, or maybe linking
to the wiki is sufficient.
At the moment the only person noted on the history page is you,
but you probably are not the initial writer; you probably are
just the person who put the book on the wiki. That's why I was
wondering how we'd know who the initial author is. Also the
initial copyright date may not be the date the book was put on
the wiki.
Friends of OpenDocument Inc is interested in publishing printed copies
of these books (through Lulu), unless Sun or someone else is doing so.
Sun will probably publish Sun branded copies of these books for
StarOffice through their publication site docs.sun.com (free download).
That is good for free downloads (presumably of PDFs), but there
may be an audience who are prepared to pay for printed copies.
We're just offering to provide that service, if no one else plans
to do so.
Will the profits (if any) be fed back to the OOo community?
Friends of OpenDocument's policy is that profits from books are
returned to whatever organisation the authors or owners of a book
specify. We take a small admin fee (currently 0.50 USD per book
sold -- mainly to cover auditing costs, an unavoidable legal
requirement) plus out-of-pocket costs, for example to purchase of
ISBN, legal deposit copies for copyright purposes (a requirement
in Australia). So if the authors or owners of these books say
"send the profits from these books to TeamOOo" or "send the
profits to xxxxx", that is what will happen.
--Jean
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