Nino Novak wrote: > In the Germanophone Community the concern has been raised that > contributions to the localized User Guide Wiki pages can not be ported > back to the OOoauthors ODT documents as the ODTs are multiple licensed > (CC-BY as well as GPL and PDL) and the wiki pages - so far - are > explicitly only under CC-BY. > > When saving a page, OpenOffice.org_Wiki:Copyrights > ( http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Wiki:Copyrights ) > is mentioned, where contributors are asked to sign > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Authors_licensing_declaration > if they are allowing their contributions to be used in other places > under the licenses mentioned there. > > In my understanding, the back porting of contributions is essential and > should go smoothly per default without signing addtional statements. > > Opinions? > How to achieve this?
Licensing is a tough topic. In a perfect world all OOo Docs would be under a single license. Reality is though... they're not. The Wiki itself is also a minefield of mixed licensing. This is, unfortunately, a product of how the Wiki evolved from a developer only playground into a tool that all OOo projects are using... in that evolution, copyright and licensing were not made clear from the start. Some attempts have been made to clarify that... but most attempts have failed (eg you can't make a blanket copyright statement for the Wiki that affects and changes the license for existing content). The Licensing declaration is an attempt to sort out some of that mess. Generally speaking that declaration should not be necessary for the OOoWiki Documentation. For the docs, we are trying to keep things either PDL and/or CC-BY. For the ODT sources you mention, Jean will have to chime in here since she's been closer to that side of the documentation than I have been. C. -- Clayton Cornell [email protected] OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
