The license conditions (GPL3 and/or CC-BY3) allow it. It's standard in open source projects to have licenses allowing reuse as long as the original authors are acknowledged in specific ways.
--Jean On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 11:58 +0100, Cecilia Cheung wrote: > Jean, > Do the OOo documents have no copyrights and terms & conditions in governing > how the OOo materials are used?How can someone who didn't write the materials > could reap the benefit? > > Cecilia > > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:34:55 +1000 > > Subject: [authors] Discount on printed copies of OOoAuthors books > > > > If you're considering buying a printed copy of one or more of our books > > from Lulu.com (perhaps for a gift, if not for yourself), now is a good > > time to do it. > > > > Go to http://stores.lulu.com/opendocument to find our books. Use coupon > > code FALLREAD305 at checkout and receive 15% off. Maximum savings with > > this promotion is $10. You can only use the code once per account, and > > you can't use this coupon in combination with other coupon codes. This > > offer ends on October 15, 2010. > > > > Please DO NOT buy what appear to be our books from Amazon.com -- someone > > else is reprinting them and selling them on Amazon. None of the profits > > from sales of those copies goes to the OOo community. For more info, see > > http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/newsite/?p=646 (BTW, the 15% off > > Lulu books comes out of Lulu's share of the price, not our share.) > > > > Jean > > -- > > Jean Hollis Weber > > Co-Lead, OpenOffice.org Documentation Project > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
