On 11/25/2011 02:01 PM, Jean Weber wrote:
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
I assume the practical differences between GPL and Apache for the users
and contributors are trivial, practically non-existent. The main item is
that derivative works are allowed with proper attribution.
I do not see any real issue with the change.
--
Jay Lozier
[email protected]
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