Given that I'm proposing a change to put new docs into the license preferred by LO, I don't see the point in taking up the Board's time. I think Tom covered this well in his note. But I see you have already contacted them...
--Jean On Sunday, November 27, 2011, David Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Given that we're talking about such a fundamental thing as a change of > license in new LibreOffice documentation, I still reckon it would be > natural to involve the BoD in discussing the idea... > > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Licensing-for-NEW-documents-tp3536793p3536793.html > > -- > David Nelson > > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Jean Weber <[email protected]> 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. >> >> --Jean > -- 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
