Hi Gianluca, On Dec 10, 2007 11:00 AM, Gianluca Turconi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Templates and License-terms] > the issue is slightly different. In fact, according to the Policies and > Terms of Use page <http://www.sunsource.net/TUPPCP.html>, section 4.c, > all materials posted on OOo website, included those documents/templates > whose author is not expressly mentioned, are granted under:
"You hereby grant to the Hosts and all Users [...]" > ***Quotation*** > a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive and > fully sub-licensable right and license under Your intellectual property > rights to reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create > derivative works from, distribute, perform, display and use Your > Submissions (in whole or part) and to incorporate it in other works in > any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, all subject > to the obligation to retain any copyright notices included in Your > Submissions. All Users, the Hosts, and their sublicensees are > responsible for any modifications they make to the Submissions of others. > ***End of Quotation*** > > So my question is: if I don't know who owns "the intellectual property > rights to reproduce..." That is the point: "You", the one who uploads stuff/posts stuff to the site, grant the right to reproduce to both the host (CollabNet/Sun, the ones running the servers), and other users (regular visitors) > of such a template because that person is not > mentioned anywhere, can I quote the hosts (which one?) as my or other > translators' sublicenser under the TUPPCP, section 4.c terms? It is. "You" is defined at the very beginning, under "Definitions" > In a easier way: can I write "(c) 2007, Sun Microsystem Inc., released > under TUUPCP, section 4.c terms and conditions" on a package that > includes such templates? No, Since you're not Sun Microsystems, and probably not a representative who can act in Sun's name. While you can grant the copyright to another entity, this is something different than claiming a certain piece has originated from the other entity. So copyright is either you/the italian project/the authors of the templates. And of course you can refer to the site-wide terms of use. > This solution seems possible according to TUPPCP 4.d section (Moral > Rights), but I'd like to have a specific endorsement to do this action. IANAL, so I cannot give any real advice here, just putting someone else's name under stuff that person didn't create or approve just doesn't sound right to me. > Any suggestion/clarification is welcomed. German-lang project put their templates under LGPL, to ease distribution with OOo itself. ciao Christian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
