On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 31, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Marcus (OOo) <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi license experts, all, > >> > >> I'm just wondering if it's necessary to label our webpages with the ALv2 > >> header. > >> > > > > If you look at our project webpages (those at > > incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg) you see that they do all have the > > ALv2 stated in a comment in the <head>. > > > > That is because all of those pages are new, written in the podling, by > > committers. > > > > For legacy pages at www.openoffice.org, including the wiki, we cannot > > assume the legacy content is ALv2. It is generally under a range of > > licenses. But for new content, added by project committers, checked > > in via Subversion, I think it should be declared as ALv2. That would > > agree with the iCLA. > > > >> At least for our JavaScript files I could think of that it is suitable > as it > >> is kind of code? Or also for CSS files? All webpage files? > >> > > > > Anything that can be copyrighted can have the ALv2 license added. > > But to be honest, I have not really paid attention to this for new web > > pages. And since the website is not included in our release, none of > > this gets audited. But I can see it would be a "good thing" if we > > did this more consistently. > > This is my understanding. It will be good to change the mdtext in the > OOo-site. The old html content was copied and it is not going to be a > problem according to the information I received. > > If you look at the svn you will see that it was Kay and I did the bulk of > these commits with minimal adjustment. There are scripts that were used to > do the work. > > If we want to insert the al2 banner on every page then there are ways to > do it with templates or ssi. > > When I did this initially in the OOo site was told not to by Dennis. IIRC > > Regards, > Dave > I'd like to reopen this old thread for a bit. Dave, do you know why Dennis told you not to do this? I think when we (you and I) were first porting things over, you had some concerns -- or rather tracked down -- that the pages were PDL, a license Sun created. ref: http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/PDL.html So, do we basically think that anyone (any one of us or anyone else) can use/modify the content of these pages according to this license? > > > >> Would be great to get opinions from our license gurus. :-) > >> > >> Thanks in advance. > >> > >> Marcus > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "There's no crying in baseball!" -- Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks), "A League of Their Own"
