On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > I think it's best to avoid any complicated licensing and just license > everything on our wiki with the same CC-by-SA that we always use. > > Our Faq is likely to change quite a bit so none of this is likely to > be an issue in, say 6-12 months from now. The Faq is likely to be > sufficiently different by then. That would give them a very short > time-frame to pay-for and book court dates and serve notices.
It's not about court cases, it's about respecting the wishes and expectations of people who did contribute under a specific license (or no license). >> Some info, though I'm not sure what relevance it has to a decision about >> copying FAQs. >> The English Math FAQs were definitely on the OOo wiki before the fork, >> probably for >> several years. I checked the Internet Archive from just before the fork and >> have taken >> some relevant screenshots from the FAQ pages. The first page of the English >> FAQ >> explicitly has a PDL license at the bottom, but none of the Math FAQ pages >> that I >> looked at (under the heading "Formulas") had any license at the bottom. My personal opinion... at the time, unless otherwise explicitly noted, I considered everything that was added to the OOoWiki under PDL even if it wasn't explicitly stated. The PDL was in effect on all documentation that was created from the Sun side of the equation, and the vast majority of the initial FAQ content was uploaded by Sun (easy to check, usernames like fpe, ufi, mwhaller, ccornell were all Sun contributors). At the time... the separate OOo doc team were working under CC-BY, and their contributions (to the Wiki and anywhere else) were clearly marked CC-BY and should be treated as such (and this is compatible with TDF docs today). If we treat legacy documentation content that does not have any explicit license as being under PDL (as much as we may not like PDL), we should be within reason of the original expectations of the original authors. This is compatible with the license statements on the AOO Wiki today. If the PDL is incompatible with the CC-BY-SA licenses in use for LibreOffice, then maybe instead of direct copy/paste, use the content as a starting point... rewrite and update the content to make it relevant to LibreOffice. Does this idea still respect the original author's intentions as well as the expectations of anyone who contributed to the FAQs since they were added to the Wiki? Clayton -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org 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
