On 11/30/2011 11:15 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
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
Creative commons has descriptions of the various types of CC licenses
available. Their goal is allow the copyright owner to specifically allow
certain uses by blanket permission such as you are free to copy or
distribute but can not modify or resell the work permission. They have
several different schemes depending on the owner's wishes. They describe
it as "some rights reserved" instead of "all rights reserved." See
http://creativecommons.org/ and
http://creativecommons.org/about
AFAIK copyright is covered by both national law and international
treaties while software licenses are regulated only by national law
without any international treaties. Thus copyright law is more or less
harmonized worldwide - the treaties require a degree of harmonization by
signatory countries. Thus US copyright law is very similar to UK
copyright law. Software licenses are technically contracts between the
producer and user. Thus they are governed by national contract law.
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 :)
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From: toki<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Licensing for NEW documents
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, 30 November, 2011, 16:06
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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
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