Alex wrote: >that where the template could be (mis)used by a non-professional, then perhaps it should carry a warning, and in fact in certain states, this may even be obligatory.
Which more or less gets back to my concerns out the template I created. > Well, the disclaimer problem AFAIK essentially only raises its ugly head in > US based templates (what a surprise, the lawyer's paradise state). I've seen them in other countries, but that may be simply because the packaging was created for the US market, and it is easier to use the same packaging worldwide, then change it for each country. [Typically, English text will have umpteen disclaimers for the US market, that aren't mentioned in any other language. Swedish text will list several compliance standards that may be translated into English. Text in a non-Romance, or Non-Germanic language usually omits any mention of either compliance standards or disclaimers.] >One of the things I have always criticised in the OOo project is this lack of legal awareness. Why ? Well simply put, risks can be minimized but virtually never excluded. A lot of that is because OpenOffice.org is essentially a Sun Project. And Sun isn't going to protect material that it does not own outright. This is one of the reasons why an _independent_ OOo Foundation is essential. xan joanthon -- This is our sandbox and if we want to throw sand we can
