-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 28/11/11 22:30, italovignoli wrote:
> - before deciding to use CC BY-NC-SA for all my licensed documents (mostly > presentations). Most of the lawsuits involving CC Licenses have involved the meaning of the CC-BY-NC-SA license. Look at the difference of opinion expressed by the Creative Commons Foundation, MIT, and the Dutch Collection Society on what that license means, grants, permits, and prohibits. >Although we have not discussed the subject at BoD level, I can anticipate that the foreseeable result of a discussion would be against using Apache License for documents. OOAuthors is an organization that is independent of both _The Document Founation_ and _The Apache Foundation_. As such, rulings by either organization are technically meaningless. > Defaulting to CC/AL, in my opinion, means to "legally" steal the work of all > people who are not enough knowledgeable about software licenses (in my > opinion, the majority of people involved in documentation). The issue is that there is nothing in non-legalese that explains the consequences of using the different licenses, for documentation, in any legal jurisdiction. > I would personally veto the license change without a clear and visible > explanation > of the consequences for their work of AL adoption for documents. I'd suggest that there be a document that clearly explains the legal consequences, in plain English, on using: * CC-BY-SA by itself; * AL by itself; * CC-BY-SA and AL; * LGPL by itself; jonathon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJO1lSNAAoJEEKevXexj2B1W84H/iE/NBm8onFSHJ1eaisiwTvC 5lS+uiOw1N+wRY1mhdhzJXZaaNPomQs5/o7bNbGPF5yOotzzdqfnL5HRsSb5C/HA C8m9gZCaHky+HhzwX8D66zoEH/AZC2TlO3tqqjjaMuVA33Ep4SmkRoMQ8pCVCiwA gmGZ8VHRA16CHcZHHNR41dxJDP2LMKNXMqRjemDjScghWN1DOngH/0Yr78Aw1ePH Qq+5d0h1dF2g9We9INwKC/7a2nAXnR+V8EKIOD5avoALloHtKfzGXbzfhciBABE8 jL8lusNrNAO4neKky3TO6dj9Stutv304wviTqra1fbUEawpbNoqM7L6S/vBe9gU= =DCgU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
