(eg you can't make a blanket copyright statement for the Wiki
that affects and changes the license for existing content)
Why not?
There has to be a way people can get together and de-complicate things.
Why should licensing tie knots in people who want to work together and
have common desires?
Isn't there someone out there who is brilliant with this kind of thing
who can sort out all of these issues for us?
Someone who is really good at finding solutions in this particular area?
There has to be.
Alan
Clayton wrote:
Nino Novak wrote:
In the Germanophone Community the concern has been raised that
contributions to the localized User Guide Wiki pages can not be ported
back to the OOoauthors ODT documents as the ODTs are multiple licensed
(CC-BY as well as GPL and PDL) and the wiki pages - so far - are
explicitly only under CC-BY.
When saving a page, OpenOffice.org_Wiki:Copyrights
( http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Wiki:Copyrights )
is mentioned, where contributors are asked to sign
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Authors_licensing_declaration
if they are allowing their contributions to be used in other places
under the licenses mentioned there.
In my understanding, the back porting of contributions is essential and
should go smoothly per default without signing addtional statements.
Opinions?
How to achieve this?
Licensing is a tough topic. In a perfect world all OOo Docs would be
under a single license. Reality is though... they're not.
The Wiki itself is also a minefield of mixed licensing. This is,
unfortunately, a product of how the Wiki evolved from a developer only
playground into a tool that all OOo projects are using... in that
evolution, copyright and licensing were not made clear from the start.
Some attempts have been made to clarify that... but most attempts have
failed (eg you can't make a blanket copyright statement for the Wiki
that affects and changes the license for existing content).
The Licensing declaration is an attempt to sort out some of that mess.
Generally speaking that declaration should not be necessary for the
OOoWiki Documentation.
For the docs, we are trying to keep things either PDL and/or CC-BY. For
the ODT sources you mention, Jean will have to chime in here since she's
been closer to that side of the documentation than I have been.
C.
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