alan mcclellan wrote: > Just as a follow-up, I read the Public Documentation License (PDL) > (snooze). There is a line in section 3.3 that is pertinent to this > discussion: > > =========================== > You must include a prominent statement > that the Modification is derived, directly or indirectly, from > Original Documentation provided by the Initial Writer and include the > name of the Initial Writer in the Documentation or via an electronic > link that describes the origin or ownership of the Documentation. > =========================== > > Per my previous entry, I take this to mean Sun Microsystems is the > initial writer for Sun produced docs (although I should caveat this > with, I'm not a lawyer and have never played one on TV). > > I believe any modified docs need to be accompanied with the following > appendix, which I think would also give Sun Microsystems credit for > the initial writing, but contributors can identify themselves and > specify their own copyright:
Yes. That's how it's handled at OOo (we use PDLv1). And we have many docs where Sun is not the initial writer. Beware, once you have many contributors to a doc and start to assemble pieces from different places into new docs, this tracking exercise can get very messy. Frank -- Frank Peters, Documentation Project Co-Lead The OOo Documentation Project: SIGN UP - PARTICIPATE - CONTRIBUTE IT'S FREE! NO OBLIGATIONS! http://documentation.openoffice.org http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation
