On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Tom Davies <tomc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi :) > This whole argument is bizarre considering that we seem quite happy to > include screen-shots taken on Windows platforms. it's as though we > think that MS will never be bothered about us cutting into one of > their core profit areas and would never try to find some way of > attacking us. We seem more fearful of people who wanted to actively > help the community. > Regards from > Tom :)
Tom. Screenshots are considered to be "derivative works" under US Copyright Law (refer to the US Copyright Act of 1976, Section 101 if you want details). There is nothing wrong with including screenshots (as part of your documentation) of an application running under Windows, OSX, or any other operating system. We are NOT fearful of the community, we want to RESPECT the contributions of the community. You are the only one who is saying anything about court cases and lawyers, and imagining someone attacking LibreOffice. What we are concerned with is respecting the rights and contributions of everyone who has participated in the LibreOffice and Apache Open Office (previously OpernOffice.org) documentation. That's it... nothing more. The ambiguity of the license attached to the existing Apache Open Office documentation is a minor issue that can (reasonably) be managed... and to be honest I consider this issue resolved and closed. Anything more about lawyers and such silliness is bike-shedding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikeshedding 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
