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.
Not too surprized by your statement. For normal users, JCA is a barrier.
I understand that, of course. Normal users don't need to sign a JCA,
only contributors ;-) (Pardon the pun)
If that makes no sense to you then I suggest that you ask around.
According to Ain and André, it isn't always that high a barrier,
if we made it easy enough.
It's a political issue, I know.
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.
Those wishing to contribute directly to the code base with templates et
cetera can simply follow the directions given at
http://contributing.openoffice.org/programming.html#jca
and proceed.
Sure, that, of course, may leave docs in sort of a grey legal area.
Is the project aware of legal implications of any copyright or
other third party rights' infringement allegations to the docs?
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.
Many times.
I thought so.
Frank
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