On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 19:12 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > The essential question to ask is, what rights do users of the doc > have? If we want downstream consumers to be able to copy, modify and > redistribute the documentation then we need it under Apache 2.0, which > is what would happen if the author signed the iCLA.
The user guides are under CC-BY license. Your hypothetical case could reuse them just as they could reuse material under the Apache license. Yes, I realise you're talking about wiki material in the rest of this note. --Jean > > Project releases, naturally, are all under Apache 2.0 and must > guarantee these rights. This is true for any doc that is bundled with > them. > > As you know, we don't currently bundle the wiki doc with the releases. > But should we reserve the right to do this? Let me give you a very > plausible use case for that: > > Imagine a school or government department, or a company, that wants to > deploy OpenOffice in their organization, but also wants to host their > own copy of the wiki documentation, inside their firewall, perhaps > with some customized material. This could range from adding > additional links to internal template servers, to removing irrelevant > information, to adding documentation regarding internal-only plugins. > It could be complete, or only for some small number of pages. > > Is something like that a reasonable use? Something that we should > "reserve the right" to support? I think so. If we ever wanted to > support something like this, then we would need the wiki (or at least > the core doc parts of the wiki) be under a common permissive license.
