Hi Jean, On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> 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.
The thought comes to me that maybe it would be a good idea to consult the BoD about this question? I'm fairly certain they'll have input to offer about licensing issues... -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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
