Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Licensing for NEW documents

[Jean Weber <jeanweber@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 21:54, David Nelson <lists@traduction.biz> wrote:
> Hi Jean,
>
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Jean Weber <jeanweber@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The existing user guides are licensed the same as the OOo guides they were derived from, and the templates include this licensing information on the Copyright page (GPL and CC-BY dual license).
>>
>> NEW documents, however, could be licensed differently. I propose that new docs be dual licensed CC-BY-SA (preferred by LibreOffice) and Apache (so our work can be reused by Apache OpenOffice and other products).
>>
>> If this group agrees, or if there are no objections, I will change the template. Any new docs created from the template would then show the new license info.
>>
>> Note 1: Changing copyright (license) info in the template will not change it in existing docs, even when they are updated to a new template. Styles and footers change, but existing text in the body of the docs does not.
>>
>> Note 2: We can't change the license on existing docs without contacting the original contributors and getting their agreement. However, that doesn't prevent us from licensing new docs differently.
>
> The thought comes to me that maybe it would be a good idea to consult
> the BoD about this question? I'm fairly certain they'll have input to
> offer about licensing issues...
>
> --
> David Nelson


Sure, go ahead. --Jean

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