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Re: Documentation wiki: license requirement?
by G. Roderick Singleton-2
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On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 16:15 +0200, Andre Schnabel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> G. Roderick Singleton schrieb:
> > Please see http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-licensing.html
> > I think this will answer your question.
>
> No -this does not answer any question. The wiki has been established
> without any licensing restrictions. Louis added refernce to LGPL and
> the OOo site licensing FAQ months after contributons had been done. See
> issue 73421
> http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=73421
>
>
> > BTW, why would you think that
> > licensing would be different for the wiki?
>
> Because it is an external site and had no licensing restrictions when it
> started.
>
> Don't get me wrong - I'd leike to see all our documentations under
> licenses that are compatible. So the licensing terms for OOo source and
> documentations need to be considered. But there should be a place to
> collect materials that do not (perfectly) fit to our licenses. If we do
> not have such a place, these materials will be lost.
>Fine. I guess the wiki is just a techie amusement then for those that
cannot abide by the project requirements.
The documentation project is obliged to honour the licenses as I pointed
out; so anything on the wiki cannot be integrated into the project
without a lot of hassle. This is sad but ...
--
G. Roderick Singleton <grsingleton@...>
OpenOffice.org
> Hi,
>
> G. Roderick Singleton schrieb:
> > Please see http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-licensing.html
> > I think this will answer your question.
>
> No -this does not answer any question. The wiki has been established
> without any licensing restrictions. Louis added refernce to LGPL and
> the OOo site licensing FAQ months after contributons had been done. See
> issue 73421
> http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=73421
>
>
> > BTW, why would you think that
> > licensing would be different for the wiki?
>
> Because it is an external site and had no licensing restrictions when it
> started.
>
> Don't get me wrong - I'd leike to see all our documentations under
> licenses that are compatible. So the licensing terms for OOo source and
> documentations need to be considered. But there should be a place to
> collect materials that do not (perfectly) fit to our licenses. If we do
> not have such a place, these materials will be lost.
>
cannot abide by the project requirements.
The documentation project is obliged to honour the licenses as I pointed
out; so anything on the wiki cannot be integrated into the project
without a lot of hassle. This is sad but ...
--
G. Roderick Singleton <grsingleton@...>
OpenOffice.org
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