On Sep 7, 2011, at 8:41 PM, Dave Fisher wrote:

> Hi Dennis,
> 
> On Sep 7, 2011, at 8:02 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> 
>> I would still not touch anything.  Let's migrate/preserve first, keep it 
>> running for users in place (when we cut over), and then figure out what to 
>> do when it is all in our custody.
> 
> I would add that we need to adjust policies before we move openoffice.org 
> from Oracle's Kenai to Apache Infrastructure.

To be clear, I mean the domain name.

> 
> We also should have the branding, licensing and copyright as close as 
> possible to correct at that event. 
> 
> It fits your goal, but deals with the external wrapper including all 
> necessary URL rewrapping.
> 
>> 
>> Are you pursuing a conversion to Confluence or are you just talking about 
>> the static web pages?
> 
> Specifically everything that remains on openoffice.org when it comes over to 
> Apache Infra. I agree with Kay's idea of moving code projects to a wiki, it 
> does fit initial plans accounting for these license issues. I really hope the 
> MediaWiki migration is successful. IMHO it would be much preferred to 
> confluence and I think it has a larger of users in the community.
> 
> I am reserved about plans for NL projects,I think we should be open to either 
> possibility. My exposure to the de site that still had references to the sun 
> license used for OO 1. (or 2.) is of some concern, I lean towards the Wiki 
> for all NLs. It may be the best approach especially in terms of oversight.
> 
> Regards,
> Dave
> 
> PS. I hope you enjoyed your cats and movie!
> 
>> 
>> - Dennis
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dave Fisher [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 18:02
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Concerns about all PDL website material
>> 
>> [ ... ]
>> 
>> I just read from the licensing faq [2]
>> 
>> It seems then that most is not PDL and is then OCA or TOU. From reading the 
>> FAQ it seems like Sun/Oracle pushed that.
>> 
>> I found a list of Copyright assignments here. [3]
>> 
>> If we preserve that, we are likely good the only question now is for legal 
>> in the context of proper copyright attribution. I'll need to think about the 
>> best way to ask in the context of the whole migration of the openoffice.org 
>> website to apache infra as an openoffice.org domain.
>> 
>> Some of the snippets and contests may be LGPL and we will need to find those 
>> but that's known and expected.
>> 
>> [ ... ]
>> 
>> [2] http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-licensing.html
>> [3] http://www.openoffice.org/copyright/copyrightapproved.html
>> 
>> 
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