Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
Hi,
On 2007-04-04, at 06:10 , Frank Peters wrote:
Andre Schnabel wrote:
So, I'd be happy with posting something like, "Content posted after
[date] is licensed in accordance with OpenOffice.org's license
policy, which can be found at
http://www.openoffice.org/license.html. Content posted prior to
this date is copyrighted Sun Microsystems and the contributing
authors."
I'd rather would not extend the OOo website licensing terms to the
wiki - see Jean's and DougT's comments. I second DougT - I'd love to
see the content under Public Domain. But we need to accept other
(free) licenses. So could we rephrase:
"Content posted after [date] is Public Domain as long as there is no
explicit license notice at a single wiki page. Content posted prior
to this date is copyrighted Sun Microsystems and the contributing
authors."
Ok - someone needs to make English from that - and we need some
clause for countries where PD is not possible.
I would second Andre in allowing wiki pages to specify a license
and have a default license for pages that do not specify the their
license.
That seems good to me, too... But I'd rather not allow for even the
possibility of proprietary licenses on the wiki, which the wording
suggested seems to permit, as does our current wording. Ie, I want open
licenses.
There is some stuff in, I think, Creative Commons licenses that
Jean would like to put on the wiki. Jean?
Thus,
"Content posted after [date] is Public Domain except where otherwise
noted, in which case copyright holders may use the Public Document
License (PDL), as noted in the License page of OpenOffice.org,
http://www.openoffice.org/license.html. (Residents of countries that do
not accept the provisions of the PDL may use an equivalent license,
though we ask that you check with the Community Council beforehand.)
Content posted prior to the date above is copyrighted Sun Microsystems
and the contributing authors."
When can this be put into place?
If the people here agree with the above (not sure of the clause
excepting the PDL and how much bureaucracy that would create, nor if
such "checking" is needed; I have in mind the creation of a list of
licenses that can be used by countries that can't use the PDL), then the
CC could vote this week.
Great, thanks
Frank
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