Thank you, Frank, for pointing out the distinction between licensing and copyright.
On another matter related to licensing, I notice that not all of the pages in the http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos "Spreadsheets" section include a link to a license. I assume that this is an oversight by the authors. Actually, quite a few pages are missing a license, including the main "How To" page. Going through all the pages and adding the correct license would be a bit of a bother. One possibility would be to have an automated way to check all subpages for the appropriate license. Another alternative would be to replace the Copyright notice at the bottom of every wiki page with a creative commons license notice, which links to a page stating that the content is a) copyrighted, and b) released under a CC-BY license. Two different licenses (and maybe more) are used on this wiki: the "Creative Common Attribution 3.0 license (CC-BY)" and the "Public Documentation License (PDL)". Perhaps the site could standardize on one license. Since the OOoAuthors group, who provide the User Guides, sell some of their guides, and license them under the CC-BY license, that would seem to be the license to aim for. The CC-BY and PDL have some differences, but perhaps they are close enough to switch from PDL to CC-BY. For some contributors, licensing is significant. I checked the site's license before considering contributing. If all I had seen was the copyright notice, and missed seeing the PDL, I wouldn't have considered contributing. Chris -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Peters Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 12:33 PM To: dev@documentation.openoffice.org Subject: Re: [documentation-dev] Include images from commons.wikimedia.org cking wrote: > Regina, > The site you listed, > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_CHIDIST > _function, has the following copyright notice: > > Copyright 1999-2008 by the contributing authors and Sun Microsystems, Inc. > > That doesn't look compatible with creative commons licenses. Don't mix up copyright and licensing, please. Copyright is who owns it, while license determines what others can do with it. "With a Creative Commons license, you keep your copyright but allow people to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit - and only on the conditions you specify here." see http://creativecommons.org/license/ Frank -- Frank Peters Documentation Project Co-Lead The OOo Documentation Project: SIGN UP - PARTICIPATE - CONTRIBUTE IT'S FREE! NO OBLIGATIONS! http://documentation.openoffice.org http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
