Re: [LAZY CONSENSUS] Changes to local "code use" wording

2015-12-29 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/12/2015 18:00, Kay Schenk wrote: > In other words, if an author/developer licenses code with > a particular license, is it not the intention of that developer to > have the the product used in accordance with the license? And, if > that is the

Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2015-12-29 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 12/29/2015 1:50 AM, FR web forum wrote: I did find in options that in Options\Load Save\General “Always create a backup copy” was not checked. This should be checked by default. :( https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=104879 You can vote for this enhancement Although I agree with the

RE: [LAZY CONSENSUS] Changes to local "code use" wording

2015-12-29 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
The TL;DR: Yes, the license page describes what must be reflected in LICENSE and NOTICE files for 3rd party software, and something about the software files too. It does not address how such software comes into a project's hands. It is not about acceptance of such software. No precedent

Re: [LAZY CONSENSUS] Changes to local "code use" wording

2015-12-29 Thread Kay Schenk
On 12/29/2015 09:05 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > The TL;DR: > > Yes, the license page describes what must be reflected in LICENSE > and NOTICE files for 3rd party software, and something about the > software files too. > > It does not address how such software comes into a project's >

Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2015-12-29 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/12/2015 15:55, Bill M wrote: > I did find in options that in Options\Load Save\General “Always create a > backup copy” was not checked. This should be checked by default. :( a) There is an extremely obscure, semi-inconsistently

RE: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2015-12-29 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
It sounds like that is what we should be working on, if we continue to offer the option. Is there a Bugzilla # on this? > -Original Message- > From: toki [mailto:toki.kant...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 11:08 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Complaint

RE: [LAZY CONSENSUS] Changes to local "code use" wording

2015-12-29 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Kay Schenk [mailto:kay.sch...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 10:00 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [LAZY CONSENSUS] Changes to local "code use" wording > > > > On 12/29/2015 09:05 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > The TL;DR: > >

RE: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2015-12-29 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 I also think it is important to distinguish auto-save and the related auto-recovery from keeping a backup. Automatically keeping a backup involves not writing over the document that was opened, usually by renaming the original in some manner, and not intruding on normal operation. Backing

Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2015-12-29 Thread Patricia Shanahan
+1 This may be a good project for me to participate in, along with people who know AOO internals. I have a lot of practical experience with tracking down and fixing extremely obscure intermittent bugs in operating systems and prototypes of cache coherent multiprocessor servers, so I'm not

Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2015-12-29 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 19:44:45 -0800 Patricia Shanahan wrote: > +1 > > This may be a good project for me to participate in, along with people > who know AOO internals. I have a lot of practical experience with > tracking down and fixing extremely obscure intermittent bugs in >

Re: [LAZY CONSENSUS] Changes to local "code use" wording

2015-12-29 Thread Dave Fisher
Sorry for the top post. It really is not as mysterious as it seems. The legal-discuss@ list is where we should go for clarifications if this community has trouble with specific answers. The main emphasis about the voluntary contribution policy is about code contributed to and distributed by

Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2015-12-29 Thread FR web forum
>I did find in options that in Options\Load Save\General “Always create a >backup copy” was not checked. This should be checked by default. :( https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=104879 You can vote for this enhancement -