+1 for me too. --Dan On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 19:16 +0000, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > A big > +1 > to that! It might help this team be the upstream team which could be > advantageous. It would also be good to know that you guys were producing > things that could easily be useful to our Apaches buddies. The change would > allow people to modify and redistribute wouldn't it? > Regards from > Tom :) > > --- On Fri, 25/11/11, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Jean Weber <[email protected]> > Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Licensing for NEW documents > To: "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, 25 November, 2011, 19:01 > > The existing user guides are licensed the same as the OOo guides they were > derived from, and the templates include this licensing information on the > Copyright page (GPL and CC-BY dual license). > > NEW documents, however, could be licensed differently. I propose that new > docs be dual licensed CC-BY-SA (preferred by LibreOffice) and Apache (so our > work can be reused by Apache OpenOffice and other products). > > If this group agrees, or if there are no objections, I will change the > template. Any new docs created from the template would then show the new > license info. > > Note 1: Changing copyright (license) info in the template will not change it > in existing docs, even when they are updated to a new template. Styles and > footers change, but existing text in the body of the docs does not. > > Note 2: We can't change the license on existing docs without contacting the > original contributors and getting their agreement. However, that doesn't > prevent us from licensing new docs differently. > > --Jean > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > 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 > >
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