A little more about Tom's terminology and I shall cease discussing more about copyright than you probably ever wanted to know.
- Dennis Transfer of copyright is different than licensing a copyrighted work. There are exclusive rights that obtain to copyright holders. A copyright holder can license some or all of those rights without surrendering the copyright itself. Absent such a license, exercise of an exclusive right by anyone but the copyright owner constitutes infringement. Some infringements are defensible as "fair use" in some jurisdictions, but only judges decide whether the defense succeeds. In the example given by Tom below, (re-)distribution of the documents by TDF is done under the CC-BY-SA and it is not a relicensing. It is done under the original license. And communication of the same license to the recipients is done under the original license. Were the TDF or its contributors to make a derivative work, the CC-BY-SA requires that derivative to satisfy the Share-Alike requirement. (It is a form of copyleft.) Any added copyright would apply to the new material and its combination with the original. But the original copyright is intact: You can't copyright the parts of a work that are not your own independent creation (unless you've been transferred that copyright). Finally, note that the copyright holder still holds all of the original exclusive rights and is not restricted by the license granted others. That is how Sun, which held the copyrights to OpenOffice.org, was able to privately-license the code base under different terms than the LGPL that was granted to the general public and used on the open-source OpenOffice.org distributions. One feature of reciprocal licenses that I favor is the fact that the recipients have all of the same rights that the copyright owner has, apart from the ability to transfer the copyright itself. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Tom Davies [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 08:16 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Licensing for NEW documents 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 :) [ ... ] -- 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
