On Jun 18, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > Sent from my mobile device (so please excuse typos) > > On 18 Jun 2011, at 18:34, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ross, >> >> Drew had a long description. If that gives you any clarity. > > It does now I've read it more carefully, thanks (and to Drew) > >> >>> Can you please clarify the legal status of the content on the forums? >> >> This is apparently the license: http://openoffice.org/terms_of_use > > I think this ought to be discussed on legal-discuss, specifically 3a which > indicates "some materials" may be under terms different to these, and 4c > which gives a right to sublicence but not a copyright grant, thus we can't > relicence. 4e indicates that some "projects" might be under different terms > requiring a CLA. > > As ever (for me) reading the T&Cs give me more questions than answers.
Me too! So, who should take it to legal-discuss? Sam? Someone from the PPMC? I want to do technical and organizational work, licenses can make my head explode. Regards, Dave > > Ross > > >> >> Here is what Zoltan wrote: >> >> On Jun 18, 2011, at 7:11 AM, Reizinger Zoltán wrote: >> >>> Hi Andy, >>> >>> 2011.06.18. 15:46 keltezéssel, Andy Brown írta: >>>> Hi Zoltan, >> >> snip. >> >>>> >>>> Good to see you here. :) Terry and I have been in contact an he corrected >>>> me on his role as Admin. He also told me that the license for the Forums >>>> is Copyleft which, if I understand correctly will prevent them from being >>>> on ASF servers. If they are part of the grant then I guess that could >>>> change. I am looking as some alternate options in case ASF can not host >>>> the forums. >>> The forums have link to the terms of use: http://openoffice.org/terms_of_use >>> This link was on all the time while the forum runs. >>> For my best knowledge, never was problem wit that. >>> >>> Now it is contain ASF 2.0 license for codes, I see no problems to licensing. >>> Usually no source codes submitted to forums. >>> >>> Zoltan >> >> >> Regards, >> Dave >> >>> We've been told code is Apache licensed, but what about the content? >>> >>> This same question applies to the content on the user mail lists (asked >>> about elsewhere in this thread). >> >> >>> >>> Ross >>> >>> Sent from my mobile device (so please excuse typos) >>> >>> On 18 Jun 2011, at 18:14, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Jun 18, 2011, at 9:33 AM, eric b wrote: >>>> >>>>> OOops, sorry, should read: >>>>> >>>>> "Can someone explain why OOo4Kids and OOoLight are missing in this list ?" >>>> >>>> Thanks for the reminder. >>>> >>>> As for explanations the Apache podling and committers are still getting >>>> organized. The project website is just there and we had our first commits >>>> in our SVN repos just last night - the website. We are waiting on Wikis. >>>> Haven't decided on Bugzilla vs. JIRA ... >>>> >>>> Keep watching and tell use what you need. "Patches are welcome", but we >>>> don't have much to patch yet. >>>> >>>> Best Regards, >>>> Dave >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Regards,, >>>>> Eric Bachard >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> qɔᴉɹə >>>>> Education Project: >>>>> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project >>>>> Projet OOo4Kids : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Main_Page >>>>> L'association EducOOo : http://www.educoo.org >>>>> Blog : http://eric.bachard.org/news >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>
