Hello *,
I'm crossposting this message to dev@documentation.openoffice.org and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] because I'm not sure which list (if any) is
the right one for it.
Recently (2007/12/01), The Italian community has started a new project here:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Modelli
in order to provide OOo templates written in our native language that
can be used, modified and distributed by any user/distributor for
whatever purpose (business, private, educational ones, and so on).
Hence, we've excluded many templates that are, for example, freeware or
for which we cannot know who the author is because he/she is not
mentioned anywhere.
However, since the beginning, we've found several issues that are
related to the OOo Wiki/website licensing system.
For the Wiki, they are being already discussed here:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=73421
while for OOo templates directly hosted inside the documentation project
http://documentation.openoffice.org/Samples_Templates/index.html
the issue is slightly different. In fact, according to the Policies and
Terms of Use page <http://www.sunsource.net/TUPPCP.html>, section 4.c,
all materials posted on OOo website, included those documents/templates
whose author is not expressly mentioned, are granted under:
***Quotation***
a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive and
fully sub-licensable right and license under Your intellectual property
rights to reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create
derivative works from, distribute, perform, display and use Your
Submissions (in whole or part) and to incorporate it in other works in
any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, all subject
to the obligation to retain any copyright notices included in Your
Submissions. All Users, the Hosts, and their sublicensees are
responsible for any modifications they make to the Submissions of others.
***End of Quotation***
So my question is: if I don't know who owns "the intellectual property
rights to reproduce..." of such a template because that person is not
mentioned anywhere, can I quote the hosts (which one?) as my or other
translators' sublicenser under the TUPPCP, section 4.c terms?
In a easier way: can I write "(c) 2007, Sun Microsystem Inc., released
under TUUPCP, section 4.c terms and conditions" on a package that
includes such templates?
This solution seems possible according to TUPPCP 4.d section (Moral
Rights), but I'd like to have a specific endorsement to do this action.
Any suggestion/clarification is welcomed.
Regards,
Gianluca
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