Hi :) Thanks Sigrid. Copy-left agreements such as the Creative Commons used in artworks, video, documentation and elsewhere is a very new concept that can allow people to copy, modify and redistribute.
The traditional idea of "public domain" is merely that you are allowed to read it and if you are really lucky you might be allowed to copy a certain number of lines. The laws around it are quite turgid, confusing and vary from country to country. TDF Documentation Team often use a "CC by SA" (a Creative Commons) license. Creative Commons offer a variety of approaches allowing authors, sculptors, artists, musicians and others to decide just how flexible they want to be about allowing people to redistribution or modify or give credit to the person that created the original. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Sigrid Carrera <sigrid.carr...@googlemail.com> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 13 August, 2011 11:20:56 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Pimaco extension for labels Hi, On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:16:14 -0700 "Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote: > Um, that statement makes no sense. Public domain documents require no >license. They are either someone's copyright and licensed under the GPL or >there's a quit claim on the copyright and no license applies. I think the statement makes perfect sense. There are countries, where you cannot give up your rights (Germany and I think many other EU countries as well). I would interpret this then in the following way: If you live in a country where you can give up your rights, you can get those templates as "public domain". If you live in a country where you cannot give up your rights, you can get those templetes under the "GPL". Sounds reasonable to me. Sigrid -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
