Hi Juergen,
Do not expect any contribution from the community (at least from
myself) until this is not clear and the SDK is not free. Final
document licence but also tools to build the final result have to be
clearly stated as free
you mix again two things.
Why "again" ? This is the second time you employ this term regarding
some of my writings
I just state that this is not clear (at least for me or new commer) and
my (its) concern is to provide free content
The SDK is totally free and open source.
great ! under what licence ?
Only
the DevGuide is a Sun document which of course is made available for
free as well and which is part of the free available SDK.
so the rendering of the DevGuide is under an other licence ? Am I right ?
What documentation would be available if the DevGuide wouldn't be exist?
Juergen, you misunderstood me. This is not the point
I totally agree that teh DevGuide and the SDK is a great productive
documentation and i thank Sun and writers for given such a complete
document. OOo scripting would'nt have be so interresting without it. And
that is why i'm actually considering of contributing some lines
But things have to be clear !
What is free, what is half-free, what is not.
Done by Sun or everybody else.
Sun offers simply to maintain the guide professional and make it
available for free.
Under which free licence ?
Ok it would be nice if the guide would be open source but Sun has
decided to provide it under a special Sun documentation license.
So is it free or not ?
Where to find this licence ?
Is this rendering mandatory as the devGuide content seems to be free if
i understand correctly
Maybe
this will change in the future, i don't know. But fact is that until
today nobody has tried to contribute a bigger part to the DevGuide and
so we don't have had any problems so far.
Perharps thinks the reverse question ?
Juergen, i've been involved in OOo for some time now and always
recognized the great contributions that SUN has made to free software world.
This is not an attack. I just want to make things clear so that
contributors can be attracted and willing to contribute
if things are not well stated (perharps yes, some parts, perharsp no,
some parts, but do not know exactly), contributors will be suspicious
We have to clear on this, without judging any position. Just state it
My concern is not to ask Sun to make things free if it do not want; My
concern is to state the context so that contributors know where they are
going. Signing the JCA is ok for me but contributors have to know the
details
Juergen, this was not intended as an attack, so please forgive me if my
posts sounds like it was :(
I do not know if this remains uDK related though
Feel free to redirect this discussion somewhere else if you consider it
is usefull
Laurent
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