Hi Kay,

> OK, I've done another svn checkout for the curretn OOo "accepted projects"
> and the put the web info (actually what the OOo site calls "source code"
> which could be a LOT of stuff), and these are now residing in
> 
> /home/kschenk/OOoAcceptedProjects
> 
> available to those with shell access to people.apache.org

I've done the same locally with my kenai2website.sh script.

Most of the OOo website uses a license called Public Documentation License 1.0.
http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/PDL.html

It is supposedly MIT equivalent. What I am trying to track down is how the 
"Initial Writer" is documented. Once that is done then I think the next step is 
to confirm that PDL can be categorized as Category A.

I do not want to speculate about that until we can confirm how "Initial 
Writers" are documented, but I am assuming that documentation contributed to 
OOo is OK. If the PDL turns out to incompatible with AL2.0, but permitted on an 
Apache hosted openoffice.org or apache-extras, then we are still good. I know 
the Rob wants stronger all AL2.0 docs, but for this step we are only trying to 
preserve what exists now.

I have seen meta tags like this in a portion of the html: <META NAME="AUTHOR" 
CONTENT="<name>">. In that case it may be clear who the initial writer, but if 
that is missing I am completely clueless. How would you find this information? 
Did the migration to Kenai cause the loss of the necessary information? Is 
StarOffice/Sun/Oracle almost always the "Initial Writer"?

Regards,
Dave


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