hi
On 2007-01-13, at 10:22 , Alex Thurgood wrote:
Andre Schnabel wrote:
Hi,
Louis Suarez-Potts schrieb:
Hi
On 2007-01-12, at 16:21 , Caio Tiago Oliveira wrote:
[snip]
I would like to add this statement to this page, http://
wiki.services.openoffice.org/mwiki/index.php?
title=OpenOffice.org_Wiki:Copyrights&action=edit
"Content licensed according to the OpenOffice.org license scheme
as found at http://www.openoffice.org/license.html";
*sigh* I wish we had a legal project.
I hear you André, but I'm too snowed under at the moment to get
anything started, although I firmly believe that the community
needs a project like that to sort out these kind of problems. You
are correct in stating that if an author publishes his/her work
under a particular licence, then that licence can not simply be
changed at the whim of someone else without asking each and every
author to agree to the change. To do so, is to infringe, at the
least, on their moral rights. In addition, any such unnotified
change would automatically qualify the author to withdraw his
consent. The American community within OOo must understand that
copyright is more than an ownership issue over here in Europe.
The "american community"? What community is that? :-)
Really, this is a dead horse that is being flogged. Andre changed the
wiki license and when I changed it (and I'm not part of the American
community, I think nor is Stefan, nor is Caio, nor is Maho), I did
not intend for it to be "retroactive" or to "apply" whimsically after
the fact. Rather, I used the language I did because I was asked to
provide some clarity to the licensing of the wiki--something that
hadn't really occurred to me before, b/c the understanding was that
all .sevices.ooo sites were in license synch with OOo. Believe it or
not, I'm glad that André corrected the wiki and would be happy with
the much simpler language that Caio proposed.
Again, this is a bit of a dead horse, and I think there are better
things to discuss, let alone flog. But baiting the "American
community" (I assume you mean moi) as a neo-imperialist force
represented by myself (zut alors!) is, uhm, well, silly. What is not
silly is to clarify the licensing of the wiki, something that Caio
has justly wanted and for which he opened the issue.
Alex
Ciao
Louis
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