On 18 June 2011 19:14, Joe Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah, we don't need a license on forum content in order > to host the forums at Apache. People who post to the forums > are implicitly granting the right of publication thru > the website, similar to people who post to the mailing > lists grant the right to republication in web archives. > It's part of the nature of the service, and doesn't need > to be spelled out in an agreement.
Isn't that dependent on the terms of use of the specific site. Even if this is not the case I'm a little confused by this assertion. We don't allow projects to use, for example, an open wiki to produce an apache.org hosted website. They contributors to the site content must have signed a CLA. Am I reading too much into that rule and thus your statement below is actually the important factor? > The only concern would be if we were trying to take forum > content and redistribute it as OOo documentation. There > we'd need an explicit license from the copyright author > in the form of an ICLA. > > > > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: drew <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Sat, June 18, 2011 2:07:31 PM >> Subject: Re: User facing web items >> >> On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 10:48 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: >> > Hi Drew, >> > >> > Ross reminds me to be very careful about content licenses. >> > >> > Would you please confirm that the license for all contributions to the >> > these >>Forums is here - http://openoffice.org/terms_of_use ? >> > >> > If not, then where? Thanks! >> > >> >> I think that is about as close to a formal license as we ever had - but >> I'll double check and let you know ASAP. >> >> //drew >> >> > -- Ross Gardler <[email protected]> Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
