Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
[snip]
Again I ask, what if authors do not want that level of protection?
Why should they be forced to accept it?
I've just spent a bit of time looking on the OOo site to see if work
put into the public domain would be allowed on the website. It's not
clear, but perhaps I just have not found the right place.
Regards, Jean
Jean has fully articulated the point of view from which I contributed
to this licensing discussion. "Protecting" authors and then attempting
to compel them to follow a particular licensing regime is what raised
my hackles. As an author, albeit not a professional one, I reserve the
right to use the licence of my choice. If this prevents publication
via the documentation project, so be it.
Peter HB
The OpenOffice.org project tries to keep everyones interest in mind.
Corporate as well as individual. Please see my earlier response.
Everyone is free to create documentation in the license of their
choice. We will be happy to link to it from the Third Party page. The
project itself, tries to keep some of the legal guesswork out of
submissions, thus the usage of PDL and JCA. Basically, the idea is that
if you get a document from the OpenOffice.org project itself there is a
certain level of understanding that is maintained through EVERY document.
The Third Party page is there so we can point to some of the GREAT
documents that exists elsewhere, but may not follow the same level of
submission process. Trust me, over the past um, 6? years now, keeping
track of all this has been FUN, to say the least. ;-)
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Scott Carr
OpenOffice.org
Documentation Co-Lead
http://documentation.openoffice.org
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