Le 25/11/11 21:25, Jean Weber a écrit :
Hi Jean, > 1) The OOo version of the existing chapters has not been published, > and I understand that Dan Lewis is writing the LO version and OOo > version in parallel. Therefore IMO the copyright page does not need > the Acknowledgements section stating "This chapter is based upon..." > with the list of contributors to the OOo chapter; all of those > contributors should instead be listed in the Contributors section of > both books and the Acks section removed. > > 2) As this book is unpublished, IMO it is a "new" document and could > be licensed under Apache and CC-BY-SA as I suggested in a previous > note... as long as all contributors agree. I believe we can contact >From a copyright law standpoint, if the work can be downloaded, then it has already been made available to the public - which under copyright law is sufficient to be considered as "publishing" in some jurisdictions. It can not then become a "new" document simply because it has gone from public draft to "public final". Your understanding or interpretation of the word "published" as I appear to understand it seems to equate more to "documentation team approved release". For example, the public can already access and download Base related documentation here : http://media.libreoffice.org/cmis/browser/English/Documentation/Base%20Guide/Draft The licenses of these documents, unless stated otherwise therein, are CC-BY-SA, in order to be in agreement with the terms of use of the TDF infrastructure. Note that I'm not against the approach, merely pointing out what I see as a flaw in the reasoning based on the underlying tenets of copyright law. If the documentation project really wanted to keep this as "unpublished" (i.e. not made available to the public), then it would have to hide access to the drafts and proofed stages of the site under the media.libreoffice.org address, and have some kind of binding agreement for the contributors of the documentation agreement that would oblige them to recognise a work as being made available only when it attained the status "published". As you will probably appreciate, this would probably attract a fair deal of criticism, possibly be fairly complex to set in motion, and would probably deter many from participating (who would want to sign up to something like that, especially for something they do mainly in their spare time?) Alex -- 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
