Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Licensing for NEW documents

[toki <toki.kantoor@gmail.com>]

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On 28/11/11 22:30, italovignoli wrote:

> - before deciding to use CC BY-NC-SA for all my licensed documents (mostly presentations).

Most of the lawsuits involving CC Licenses have involved the meaning of
the CC-BY-NC-SA license.

Look at the difference of opinion expressed by the Creative Commons
Foundation, MIT, and the Dutch Collection Society on what that license
means, grants, permits, and prohibits.

>Although we have not discussed the subject at BoD level, I can
anticipate that the foreseeable result of a discussion would be against
using Apache License for documents.

OOAuthors is an organization that is independent of both _The Document
Founation_ and _The Apache Foundation_. As such, rulings by either
organization are technically meaningless.

> Defaulting to CC/AL, in my opinion, means to "legally" steal the work of all
> people who are not enough knowledgeable about software licenses (in my opinion, the majority of people involved in documentation).

The issue is that there is nothing in non-legalese that explains the
consequences of using the different licenses, for documentation, in any
legal jurisdiction.

> I would personally veto the license change without a clear and visible explanation
> of the consequences for their work of AL adoption for documents.

I'd suggest that there be a document that clearly explains the legal
consequences, in plain English, on using:
* CC-BY-SA by itself;
* AL by itself;
* CC-BY-SA and AL;
* LGPL by itself;

jonathon
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