Hello @all, (sorry for cross-posting, I'm not sure, which list is the correct one for this topic)
We had a long discussion on the German dev-list about using screenshots of OOo made on any MS operating system in our documentation. We found only the following on Microsoft's website: http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/permissions/default.mspx#E3C (English) or http://www.microsoft.com/germany/unternehmen/informationen/rechtlichehinweise/bilder.mspx#ECGAC (German) We didn't know, how to interpret this, so André Schnabel wrote an email to Microsoft Germany, asking if we're allowed to do this. His question includes the fact, that even when we're doing screen shots of our own software, that title bars, scroll bars and "OK" buttons are provided by the OS. (And it's self-evident, that we don't do any pictures of logo's, cliparts or any other trademarked stuff.) We want to be sure, that we're allowed to use a free license (PDL) for documentation and screen shots. Can we allow other users to reuse the screen shots, and can we allow them, that they can edit the screenshots (the German website of Microsoft says "No" to this). The answer from the Microsoft person was, that the mentioned things belong to the OS, and that the rules stated on the above websites are valid. Using screen shots made under Microsoft Windows is acceptable, as long as we mention, that the program runs on MS Windows. Does anyone of you have any experience with this? Or knows more than we about copyright? Is is possible and legal, that MS claims, that we have to follow their rules for the copyright? Has anyone of the other european projects some more experience with this? Should we redo all screen shots by using a different operating system (like Linux, BSD) to prevent every problems with Microsoft? What do you think? We hope for some help and advise. Sigrid PS: I hope, you all understand what I wanted to say, if not, please ask and I'll try to rephrase the problem. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
