[Off-topic] Apart from particular interest that diro@ has stated, I find there to be something odd about the use of PDL on www.openoffice.org artifacts. I have not seen one of those attached PDL licenses that anyone bothered to fill out. That is, the blanks are not filled in and there is no way to ascertain who the granters of any of those licenses happen to be. That makes it rather difficult to comply with some of their provisions [;<).
-----Original Message----- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 11:27 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Clarification of Public Documentation License 1.0 On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:47 PM, <d...@nixsyspaus.org> wrote: > Greetings, > > Could someone of proper standing submit the PDL: > > http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/PDL.html > > to the OSI: > > http://opensource.org/approval > > for review and clarification of this license? > > 1. It is a documentation license, not a source code license, so I don't see this as being relevant to the OSI. For example, I don't believe OSI has reviewed/approved the Creative Commons licenses or the GNU Free Documentation License either. 2. The PDL was originally from Sun Microsystems. They don't exist anymore, and we're not using that license in the Apache OpenOffice project for any new work. Everything will be Apache License 2.0, code and documentation, in the future. So I don't think anyone has the standing or interest to take this to the OSI, and I'm not sure the OSI even wants to deal with documentation licenses. Is there any other way we can help you? Regards, -Rob > TIA > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
