It is my understanding that the openoffice.org web site content is not a 
subject of the Oracle grant.  Although the ASF now has custody of the domains, 
there is no content grant.

The explicit licenses on content there continue to apply.

My personal preference would be to continue on ODF Authors so long as what is 
developed is a derivative of work already there.

Whether republishing directly on openoffice.org becomes appropriate or not can 
be resolved when the time comes.  Also, if ODFAuthors were not to be 
perpetuated, it might be necessary to host it elsewhere, still not necessarily 
on ASF servers.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith N. McKenna [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 19:03
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [User Docs] What do we as a community want for user documentation 
or AOO

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> Scenario 2 under "Cons":
> "Licensing issues". We are already hosting the existing "outdated"
> guides on Apache servers (eg.
> http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation).

My gut says that they were "grandfathered" in with the original grant to 
Apache and that attempts to go forward with new docs would meet with 
serious push back from many quarters.

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