Tom wrote: >So can you back that up by finding me even 1 original author who objects >enough that they would be able to get Apache to file a suit against us and >serve us with a "Take down" or "Cease and desist" notice which we would find difficult to action within a reasonable time-frame?
The copyright holder is who would file the DMCA take down notice, "Cease and Desist" notice, etc. That may, but need not be the author of the content. I have seen instances where an author would happilly share content for other uses, with no royalty payment, attribution, or anything of that nature required, but the executor of their estate has had a very different approach, requiring hefty royalties, co-author attribution, and other things, even when the contributed content was but one paragraph in a 5,000 page tome. TDF is located in Germany, The Apache Software Foundation is located in the United States, and contributors to both projects, and their predecessor, OOo are located all over the globe. As such, one can either do the right thing, which is adhere to the license the content is distributed under, or waste time, effort, energy, and money, being subject to actual, or potential legal issues, arising from any of the countries that the contributor resides in, is a citizen of, or otherwise under the legal jurisdiction of. Pondering on how Canon Law of the Holy, Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church Of Christ, applies in a Japanese court, interpreting a license crafted in the United States, based upon a treaty signed in South America, is the type of mess that you are trying to get the TDF involved in, by ignoring the license(s) that the content was originally created and distributed under. I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. jonathon -- Sent from the eating establishment at the far side of the universe, at the begining of time. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
