Hi, Just took a look at the Basic document.
First comment - apparently someone did a search and replace for the words StarOffice and OpenOffice.org. But forgot to remove the numeric part, so it now reads OpenOffice.org 7 Not sure the developers are ready to make that big a jump in the release number just yet :>) On 10/1/07, Frank Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > Frank Peters > Documentation Project Co-Lead > > The OOo Documentation Project: > SIGN UP - PARTICIPATE - CONTRIBUTE > IT'S FREE! NO OBLIGATIONS! > http://documentation.openoffice.org > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
