G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
As I pointed out to Aurélien, template creators must sign the JCA before their work can be considered. Wish it were not so but that is the current situation. I have heard from others that this situation is being examined for a change to a more open way to contribute templates et cetera. Hope it happens but right now we are stuck with JCA :-(
I don't really understand why JCA is such a problem. It is a legal requirement to stay flexible. The original contributor will *never* lose the copyright for his/her contributions, he/she just shares it with Sun being the OOo "umbrella" legal entity. This is also to protect the project from people infringing anyones rights. Assume, that someone contributes plagiarized copyrighted content to documents. The original copyright holder could make the OOo project accountable for such copyright infringements if there are no JCAs signed by the contributor where he/she assures that he/she has the right to contribute that content. Lastly, without one entity holding the shared(!) copyright of the work, it would be practically impossible for the community to change licensing or usage of the content since it would require the explicit approval of each copyright holder. But I assume this has all been discussed before. Frank
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