Hi Jean, Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011, 09:33:06 schrieb Jean Weber: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 18:20, Jay Lozier <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sounds like it is best to stick with a Creative Commons license only for > > LO with the author(s) having the rights to reassign to others as they > > wish. The problem with reassignment, if I understand copyrights, is that > > all the holders must agree or it not valid. > > I disagree. Dennis has covered well in various notes the situation > with including the Apache license in a dual license arrangement. It is > IMO very much an advantage, not a problem, and avoids exactly the > situation you mention (of perhaps wanting to relicense in future). Of > course, it potentially means that some people (eg Alex) may choose not > to contribute to documents licensed in this way. But I suspect that > most contributors don't and won't care, and of those who do care, most > will be happy with the dual license. Indeed, I suspect that most > contributors to the docs produced by ODFAuthors and the docs being > created here at LO have never paid any attention to the licensing of > those docs. > > I'll reiterate my comment in another note that if someone (you, for > example) were to write a new document from scratch and wanted to > license it only under CC-BY-SA, then they can certainly do so.
I don't understand the whole discussion. If I read the explanation at http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#cc-sa correct there is no need for another licensing than CC-BY-SA, is it? The CC licensing also very common in the environment of writing and publishing. Regards, Andreas -- ## Developer LibreOffice ## Freie Office-Suite für Linux, Mac, Windows ## http://LibreOffice.org ## Support the Document Foundation (http://documentfoundation.org) ## Meine Seite: http://www.amantke.de -- 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
