Hi, On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 12:54 +0100, Tom Davies wrote:
> 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 In the US public domain means the copyright has lapsed any one is free to use the work as they please with requirements or fees. The only "requirement" is you should properly cite the work but this more an ethical issue than a legal one. For example many works on 19th century American authors are now in the public domain so any one can publish the work in any media. If one does some editing (changing spellings, idioms, etc) to reflect current usage that can carry a copyright. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- 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
