Hi :) Perhaps a wiki-page explaining about licensing and copyright in relation to documentation. Licensed CC-by-blah of course and then given to the Creative Commons people. Do the CC people already have something to cover their type of licenses that we could summarise on 'our' wiki? Perhaps our wiki-page could be something like https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Copyright So that it might be more widely useful to people outside of the documentation team. A lot of LO users produce newsletters and things and might be interested.
We would have to include disclaimers and links to legalese or other appropriate materials so that it's clear our wiki is not legally binding but may be useful for trying to look-up and understand the issues (imo)? (lol) Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 30/11/11, toki <[email protected]> wrote: From: toki <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Licensing for NEW documents To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 30 November, 2011, 16:06 -----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 -- 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
