On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 20:44 -0500, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2011-01-22 16:14, Christoph Herzog a écrit : > > Not sure whether this is the right place to send this. > > The place you are guided to, when clicking on "Get more extensions > > online..." in the Extension Manager Dialog leads to > > http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:OpenOfficeExtensions/List. > > > > If I understand correctly only truly open source licensed extensions are > > listed there. However one important and known extension is missing: > > Bookmarks Menu. > > It has no license specified but seems to be in the public domain. > > http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/license/452 specifies: > > "Bookmarks menu is based on the idea of Malte Timmermann's Favorites Menu. > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/API/Samples/StarBasic/Office/Fa... > > BookmarksMenu extension is distributed under the same license. > > License: None - Treat this as sample code, feel free to reuse" > > > > The code by Malte Timmermann is given at: > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/API/Samples/StarBasic/Office/Favorites-Menu. > > It specifies: > > > > "Programming Language: StarBasic > > Author: Malte Timmermann, 2006 > > License: None - Treat this as sample code, feel free to reuse" > > > > I interpret this as both pieces of software being in the public domain. > > Bookmarks Menu is quite a good extension and has received some attention > > (e.g. http://www.heise.de/software/download/bookmarks_menu/64493). It > > would be a pity to exclude it from the LibreOffice extensions list. > > > > I have checked it with LibreOffice RC 3.3.0.4 and it seems to work. > > Is there any hindrance to include it to the list of free extensions for > > LibreOffice?
Hi Christoph Yes, the FSF. > > > > Christoph > > > > Hi Christoph: > > He seems to have all kinds of accounts on the web. Why not ask if he > could publish the extension in a licence that would allow us to put on > our extension wiki page. It looks like he works for OOo Oracle. > @Marc - The author of the extension is not Malte. If you must, just ask hanya to declare a license in a comment to the listing at the OpenOffice.org extension site. Thanks drew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/website/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
