Hi Thorsten,
um, I think the point made here is that certain content is *not* copyright-shared with Oracle, and thus cannot be (easily) relicensed?The point was about licenses and not copyright. The mentioned wiki Copyright page says "Copyright 1999, 2010 by the contributing authors and Oracle and/or its affiliates."
I think you've lost me here. Since Oracle does not exclusively own the copyright for individual content, surely it cannot relicense it unilaterally? Especially it cannot remove copyright statements like http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Authors_licensing_declaration as per http://openoffice.org/terms_of_use ยง4 c?
I understand your point but I actually think it is going into the wrong direction. The license declaration is not a copyright statement. As per the wiki copyright page, Oracle and the contributing authors co-own the copyright of the content. So this is the same situation as for the code. As copyright co-owner, Oracle would be eligible to relicense the content (as would the original contributors, of course, and that is what they did in the license declaration).
Disclaimer: I have a stake in this, being one of the people listed on the page above ...
Right. And again, I get your point and I especially get your original motivation to join that declaration. Best Frank
