Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation wiki: license requirement?

2007-04-04 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Jean Hollis Weber wrote: OOoAuthors work is currently licensed under CC-BY 2.5 or later (we'll be progressively updating this to say 3.0 or later). I was thinking of that license, too. To allow for the possibility of this material being placed on the wiki with minim

Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation wiki: license requirement?

2007-04-04 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2007-04-04, at 17:02 , Jean Hollis Weber wrote: Frank Peters wrote: Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Frank Peters wrote: I would second Andre in allowing wiki pages to specify a license and have a default license for pages that do not specify the their license. That seems good to me, too...

Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation wiki: license requirement?

2007-04-04 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: Search just plain sucks. See http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=52046 In spite of the open issue, nothing has improved. Search on the main OOo website definitely sucks. Even if it worked well (which it doesn't) for the HTML pages on the site, I don'

Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation wiki: license requirement?

2007-04-04 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Frank Peters wrote: Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Frank Peters wrote: I would second Andre in allowing wiki pages to specify a license and have a default license for pages that do not specify the their license. That seems good to me, too... But I'd rather not allow for even the possibility of p

Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation wiki: license requirement?

2007-04-04 Thread Jonathon Blake
Andre wrote: > Initially, it will result in a significant decrease in the number of > FAQs. However, it will clear up the licensing issue. It should also > ensure that the information is applicable for current (2.0) versions > of OOo. If this is the only way, I'd rather live with the non-perf

Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation wiki: license requirement?

2007-04-04 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2007-04-04, at 14:10 , Andre Schnabel wrote: Hi Jonathon, Jonathon Blake schrieb: For Drew, Louis,etc: My suggestion would be: * Close down the wiki for a couple of weeks; * Add a script that requires a specific licence (or one of a set of licences) to be used for all material submit

Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation wiki: license requirement?

2007-04-04 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi André, On 2007-04-04, at 13:23 , Andre Schnabel wrote: Thus, "Content posted after [date] is Public Domain except where otherwise noted, in which case copyright holders may use the Public Document License (PDL), as noted in the License page of OpenOffice.org, http://www.openof

Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation wiki: license requirement?

2007-04-04 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi Jonathon, Jonathon Blake schrieb: For Drew, Louis,etc: My suggestion would be: * Close down the wiki for a couple of weeks; * Add a script that requires a specific licence (or one of a set of licences) to be used for all material submitted; * Delete all existing content from the wiki; * Ope

Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation wiki: license requirement?

2007-04-04 Thread Jonathon Blake
Doug wrote: * My opinion: the OOo wiki is a public domain forum. I couldn't care The major problems with claiming public domain are: * Several major countries do not recognize the concept; * For countries that do recognize "Public Domain", putting material in the public domain from the date o

Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation wiki: license requirement?

2007-04-04 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi Louis, Louis Suarez-Potts schrieb: That seems good to me, too... But I'd rather not allow for even the possibility of proprietary licenses on the wiki, which the wording suggested seems to permit, as does our current wording. Ie, I want open licenses. whatever is meant by proprietary lic

Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation wiki: license requirement?

2007-04-04 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 08:52 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > marbux wrote: > > +1. Copyrighted material can be parked on another site and linked from > > the wiki. > > Quite true, and that's more or less the situation we have now > with the Docs website: it links to material that for various >

Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation wiki: license requirement?

2007-04-04 Thread Frank Peters
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Hi, On 2007-04-04, at 06:10 , Frank Peters wrote: Andre Schnabel wrote: So, I'd be happy with posting something like, "Content posted after [date] is licensed in accordance with OpenOffice.org's license policy, which can be found at http://www.openoffice.org/licens

Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation wiki: license requirement?

2007-04-04 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2007-04-04, at 06:10 , Frank Peters wrote: Andre Schnabel wrote: So, I'd be happy with posting something like, "Content posted after [date] is licensed in accordance with OpenOffice.org's license policy, which can be found at http://www.openoffice.org/ license.html. Content posted

Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation wiki: license requirement?

2007-04-04 Thread Frank Peters
Andre Schnabel wrote: So, I'd be happy with posting something like, "Content posted after [date] is licensed in accordance with OpenOffice.org's license policy, which can be found at http://www.openoffice.org/license.html. Content posted prior to this date is copyrighted Sun Microsystems and