Frank Peters wrote:
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.
(...)
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. (...)
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
I am currently working on the wiki contribution instructions that can be
found at
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Wiki_Editing_Policy
In a first step I added a note to the "Working on How Tos" section of
this site and added the missing PDL link to the "How to" main page of
the Wiki.
Martina
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