On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:12 AM, RGB ES wrote: >>> >>> >>> http://www.microsoft.com/About/Legal/EN/US/IntellectualProperty/Permissions/Default.aspx#ERG >>> "4. Do not use screen shots that contain third-party content." >>> This and number 2 "Do not use portions of screen shots" are problematic. >>> I >>> don't think they will ever make problems for this, but... >> >> I think this means, don't use portions of a screenshot where the >> screenshot is of a Microsoft copyrighted image. So don't use portion >> of Excel or Word screenshot. But we can use a portion of our own UI. > > > This was discussed extensively some years ago, concluding that the > OpenOffice documentation could not use screenshots that included the Windows > widgets and window decorations (like the X button to close the window). > > I know that everybody can just go to the nearest public library and find > dozen of end-user software manuals contradicting this, so I don't know how > seriously this issue should be taken. Fact is, ODFAuthors (used to?) take > all their screenshots on free operating systems due to this. >
It depends on how paranoid you want to be, For example, wouldn't taking the Linux screenshots trigger a GPL dependency? Would that be incompatible with doing the documentation under ALv2? I think you get into trouble like this unless we have a proper sense of what is "fair use". -Rob > Regards, > Andrea.
