I was more concerned by the statement just beneath the broad
copyright notice:
"Sections or single pages of this wiki are covered by certain
licenses. If a licence notice is displayed at a given wiki page, you
may use the content of this page according to the license. In case
you are contributing to such a page, your contribution is covered by
this licensing terms."
The Copyright notice itself lacks a certain precision, for that
matter. Consider the discussion page and the question that seems to
have been sitting unanswered since 2005:
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Wiki_talk:Copyrights>.
Yes, this situation is a little "fuzzy". But the question is
irrelevant for this matter since we are pondering about
copyright, not licensing.
And some of the authors seem to have attached non-permissive
licenses to their contribution.
I just created an account on that Wiki and I didn't have to agree to
anything so far. I'm also not able to even edit my own User page
though, and I did confirm my e-mail. Interesting.
That is news to me. I have been trying to get a click-through
agreement implemented for a long time to clarify things right
from the start but, alas, to no avail
Frank
- Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Frank Peters
[mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 14,
2011 14:39 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Wiki for the
project - wiki.services.openoffice.org provenance
Am 14.06.2011 23:31, schrieb Thorsten Behrens:
Frank Peters wrote:
What caught my eye was the statement that some material was
under special licensing and you'd have to notice that on an
individual-page basis.
That is indeed the case and the licensing situation on the wiki
has traditionally been awkward. But couldn't Oracle remedy this
by (as copyright holder) relicensing the content under AL like
done with the source?
Hi Frank,
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."
Frank
