Re: Boilerplate copyright agreement for commercial exploitation

2006-05-15 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2006-05-14 at 19:52 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Since lawyers talk .doc, and use revision control to track changes to the documents, that's what we ge too. Disappointing. I hope the foundation will reconsider that decision and post its documents in open formats as well. Alan

Re: Boilerplate copyright agreement for commercial exploitation

2006-05-15 Thread Dave Neary
Selon Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sul, 2006-05-14 at 19:52 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Since lawyers talk .doc, and use revision control to track changes to the documents, that's what we ge too. Disappointing. I hope the foundation will reconsider that decision and post its documents in

Re: Boilerplate copyright agreement for commercial exploitation

2006-05-15 Thread Luis Villa
On 5/15/06, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selon Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sul, 2006-05-14 at 19:52 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Since lawyers talk .doc, and use revision control to track changes to the documents, that's what we ge too. Disappointing. I hope the foundation will

Re: Boilerplate copyright agreement for commercial exploitation

2006-05-15 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2006-05-15 at 15:25 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: I can certainly post a copy in ODT later in the week which gets converted into .doc every time we need to go to the lawyers... I won't always have the time to do it promptly, though. I will note that there are several high-quality free

Re: Boilerplate copyright agreement for commercial exploitation

2006-05-15 Thread Dominic Lachowicz
- A .doc file may render in many different ways, especialy if it contains macros. Which is definitive, the contract as rendered by MS Word or by Abiword or by OpenOffice ? Stick to your open formats argument; it serves you better. ODT makes no guarantees that the documents will look the same

Re: Boilerplate copyright agreement for commercial exploitation

2006-05-15 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2006-05-15 at 10:19 -0400, Dominic Lachowicz wrote: Stick to your open formats argument; it serves you better. ODT makes no guarantees that the documents will look the same across renderers or platforms. If the apps used exactly the same layout algorithms with the same fonts, ligature

Boilerplate commercial trademark license (Was: Boilerplate copyright agreement for commercial exploitation)

2006-05-15 Thread Dominic Lachowicz
I've updated the topic; the document in quesiton concerns commercially licensing the Foundation's trademarks, not its copyrights. To get back on topic, I think that a few substantive terms of the contract merit clarification. Section 18, LICENSEE .. agrees to cooperate in any action or