Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
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.
Sun Microsystems is the initial writer in this case. I should probably
make that more clear. For the Howtos I moved to the wiki I noted
the initial writers in the comments of the history.
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.
For StarOffice, you can purchase from docs.sun.com using Print on
Demand. But all of these are branded as StarOffice.
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.
Ok, thanks Jean.
Frank
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