Hi :) Ahh, i thought that when the team publishes a document the individuals CC by SA licence is then re-licensed under a new CC by SA licence as the original licence allows?
Also, "Hey that's not my glass!!! Mine was bigger!! And it was full!!" (quote from THHGttG, thanks Zaphod :) ) I might have missed a few ! marks. 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, 15:40 > Le 26/11/11 15:50, Tom Davies a > écrit : > > Hi Tom, > > > > > > In our case the copyright holder is TDF. Well at > the moment not TDF but the German community (or is it > French?) that is the legally registered organisation that is > looking after TDF assets until TDF is fully registered. > > > > Unfortunately, or fortunately (depending on which half of > the glass you > see as full ;-)), the copyright holder is each individual > author, and > not TDF (that is precisely why there is no copyright > assignment in any > part of the LibreOffice project. > > If a contributor wishes to have his/her contribution > accepted within the > LibreOffice project then they have to do so under the > LGLP3+/MPL+ for > code, or CC-BY-SA for anything else, unless there are other > specific > reasons for this not being the case (which will always > raise the > question as to whether it is really accepted or not), as > for example, > with some older code that has been revamped but must be > kept currently > under LGPL2. > > So TDF (or even the German foundation currently running > things while it > is being set up) is not the owner of the documentation > produced. > > The Documentation Project is not a legal entity in the > sense of the word > "organisation" referred to in the AL2 license - it has no > legal remit of > representation for copyright assignments. > > > I don't have a specialism in copyright or contracts or > anything and don't have any qualifications in law for even a > single country so i am aware there are a lot of implications > and things that i am completely unaware of. Also i > know Alex does have some expertise in exactly the right area > although he is not officially employed as an expert and is > only giving us the benefit of his opinion for us to > weigh-up. > > > Indeed, I'm not (to my knowledge) employed by any entity > involved in > this project (thankfully), which allows me to be have an > unfettered > opinion. I have been known as an "électron libre" in the > past, and for > the most part, have managed to stay that way ;-) > > I have already stated on the Apache OOo list that I would > not allow for > the licences of any of my previous documentation > contributions to be > changed (since at one stage, some people were touting an > "automatic, by > default change" - fortunately, the Apache mentors of the > project are > crucially aware of doing this correctly when it comes to > the legal > issues). What the final result will be remains to be seen - > I fear a > severely trimmed OOo, but I am also assuming that the AOOo > project will > in due course fill those gaps. > > Of course, my position with regard to AL2 is my own, and > each person in > this documentation project must decide in their own > hearts/minds, how > they wish to act. I am not here to sway them in one way or > another on > that decision. I merely wanted to point out the > oversimplification that > Jean made with regard to the word "published". This > oversimplification > could lead people to make a decision with regard to the > licensing of > their works, without understanding all of the ramifications > behind it. > > > Now, please excuse my pedantry, and on with the debate !! > > 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
