Hi :) Ouch! Errr, could it be argued that we are just using their licence without actually being an ASF project and therefore the "contributor" to their project is the Team rather than individuals within the team? As individuals you are not contributing to the ASF OOo. It's the documentation team that is the contributor?
Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 26/11/11, Alexander Thurgood <[email protected]> wrote: From: Alexander Thurgood <[email protected]> Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Licensing for NEW documents To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, 26 November, 2011, 14:16 Le 25/11/11 20:01, Jean Weber a écrit : Hi Jean, > 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). The AL2 would require all documentation contributors to sign a contributor license agreement : http://www.apache.org/licenses/ Contributor License Agreements The ASF desires that all contributors of ideas, code, or documentation to the Apache projects complete, sign, and submit (via postal mail, fax or email) an Individual Contributor License Agreement (CLA) [ PDF form ]. The purpose of this agreement is to clearly define the terms under which intellectual property has been contributed to the ASF and thereby allow us to defend the project should there be a legal dispute regarding the software at some future time. A signed CLA is required to be on file before an individual is given commit rights to an ASF project. There are more than subtle differences between the AL2 and CC-BY-SA. Whilst I may not be fully satisfied with the CC-BY-SA license, it appeals to me far more than AL2. Personally, I have no such intention of signing an agreement of the AL2 type, or anything like it again (if I can possibly avoid it), I'm afraid it reminds me too much of the jumps and hoops you had to go through with Sun. So, -1 for me, I'm afraid. Alex -- 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 -- 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
