On 8 Sep 2011, at 01:08, Dave Fisher wrote: > > No, I am not touching the PDL license. I mean that on pages where I cannot > find a filled an initial writer to acknowledge with their copyright, I will > have no copyright, not even the Apache copyright. If we cannot ascertain the > copyright holder then no copyright exists.
I'd welcome correction, but I believe the ocopyright to anything without a valid alternative license will fall under the terms of the site Terms of Use[1] section 4c (according to section 4e): "You hereby grant to the Host and all Users a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive and fully sub-licensable right and license under Your intellectual property rights to reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display and use Your Submissions (in whole or part) and to incorporate them in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, all subject to the obligation to retain any copyright notices included in Your Submissions. All Users, the Host, and their sublicensees are responsible for any modifications they make to the Submissions of others." ToU prior to this version also carried equivalent clauses. That clause delivers rights equivalent to ownership to Oracle /and/ to all Users, which would include the participants in this project. I suggest seeking advice from legal@ but I doubt there is an obstacle here. S. [1] http://openoffice.org/terms_of_use
