Hi :) It's good to avoid potentially exploitable weaknesses. People with knowledge and training in Law, experience or knowledge of relevant legal cases in various countries and even people that have only read the various MS Eulas pretty much all seem to advise TDF to avoid screen-shots of Windows in official documentation. Often i don't have a clue about the issues they talk about but I think it's worth taking notice of consistent advice.
Also, it's easier to take the advice (to avoid screen-shots of Windows) than fight against it and then have regrets if it turns out to be true later. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Gary Schnabl <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 5 July, 2011 22:31:25 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started Guide_Setting up Libreoffice There was no really good reason (on legal copyright grounds) not to use the Windows XP screen captures because Microsoft would routinely insert their boilerplate copyright notices, although Microsoft would never waste its time and effort going after those who used screenshots with any Windows O/S theme. Even for a competing product like OOo/LO. Eventually, I might repackage (and rewrite them a bit) the LO documents according to my own specifications in US Letter page size. When doing so, I might reinsert the XP silver theme (or, perhaps, use another theme) for any screen captures, primarily to get some practice using some proprietary screen-capture apps. Gary On 7/5/2011 4:21 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > +1 > Even tho it might not be the theme we eventually agreed on at least they are >not > Windows screen-shots so there is no real need to change them this time. The > "Windows xp theme" is the silver(ish) one on Ubuntu? > Regards from > Tom :) > > Hi Jaimon, > > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Jaimon Jacob<[email protected]> >wrote: >> Yeah. I should have gone through it more carefully. I got it now, but I have a >> doubt about the Impress guide. The images had been updated by Song with >>Ambiance >> theme, so they need to be updated with windows xp theme now? Sorry for being >> too doubtful.. > I don't see any particular reason to do anything to Song Chuan's > work... Unless you have a particular idea in mind? If not, the idea > would simply be to continue working on what is left to be done. > > That would be my 2 cents... > > @Song Chuan: Song Chuan, would you have any comments or suggestions? > -- Gary Schnabl Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is... Technical Editor forum <http://TechnicalEditor.LivernoisYard.com/phpBB3/> -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
