cking wrote:
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.
Thanks for your comments, Chris. The agreed-upon license for
documentation content is PDL, but the folks from OOoAuthors who
graciously provide the content for many guides prefer CC-BY. Also, some
legacy content that was brought in from the web had GNU FDL attached to it.
So you're absolutely right in stating that there is a mixture of
licenses on the wiki currently. We hope to be able to remedy that
in the future. For now, we should ask people to contribute
under PDL more clearly.
Martina: can you make sure that we have something on the wiki.
Maybe writing new contribution instruction specific to the wiki
would be a good idea (currently we point to
http://documentation.openoffice.org/contributing.html).
Thanks
Frank
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