Hi doc folks.
We have received a request reg. licensing of the gucharmap documentation. Does anybody know whether a relicensing is still required? Cheers, Tobi On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 01:34:05PM +0530, Mayuresh Nirhali wrote: > Hello GNOME board members, > > I am Mayuresh Nirhali, responsible for GNOME desktop on Solaris at Oracle. > > This is regarding a request from the community that was made for > relicensing the documentation that was contributed by the Desktop team > at Oracle (Sun Microsystems then). > > <snip> > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Relicencing gucharmap and Oracle Copyright > Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:09:29 +0100 > From: Baptiste Mille-Mathias<[email protected]> > To:[email protected] > > Hi Brian, > > I'm part of the GNOME documentation team, and currently I'm converting > the gucharmap documentation from docbook to mallard fomat, which > requires also to change the licence to Creative > Common Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0). > The problem is Oracle has some copyright on this material, and I > wanted to know if you could see with Oracle to grant its permission to > change the licence of the documentation. > Do you think it is possible ? > > Thanks > > Regards > -- > Baptiste Mille-Mathias > Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés > [w]http://damnpeople.fr > > </snip> > > The request was made to Brian Cameron, and Brian forwarded this to me > I have been trying to follow up with Baptiste if this is still something > that the GNOME community is pursuing which I could take up with Oracle > Legal. > > Can someone from the board members help me confirm this ? > Since this is a legal matter, I thought I would start from the board > list, please let me know if I should be reaching out to someone else. > > I have not been able to make it to GUADEC yet, but I am sure it is a > successful event, as ever. > _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
