Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fw: Permission for 3rd party documentation

[Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>]

Hi :)
I think that is a different issue (but i'm not sure).  I think they are just asking permission to take screen-shots and perhaps use and modify the official documentation for some reason.  

I guess they don't understand copy-left licenses or OpenSource ideals or maybe they are just being polite and asking permission for something that they are free to go ahead with anyway. 
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Sun, 15/4/12, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <andrew@pitonyak.org> wrote:

From: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <andrew@pitonyak.org>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fw: Permission for 3rd party documentation
To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Sunday, 15 April, 2012, 22:46

Double edged sword. While I was using Fedora (because I wanted the latest), some of my friends were on Ubuntu because they wanted to find something that worked and then not change until they had to. Libre fixes bugs at a faster rate in releases, but they have also been introducing them at a faster rater.


On 04/15/2012 04:17 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> I thought i would forwards this from the Ubuntu Docs Mailing List.  Their objectives suggest they would be better off using LibreOffice due to it's rapid growth of LibreOffice on the 3 major platforms;  Windows, Gnu&Linux and Mac (and Bsd too of course). 
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
> --- On Tue, 10/4/12, Mark Luce<mark.luce@braintribe.com>  wrote:
>
> From: Mark Luce<mark.luce@braintribe.com>
> Subject: Permission
> To: "ubuntu-documentation"<ubuntu-doc@lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Tuesday, 10 April, 2012, 9:27
>
>
>
> Dear Ubuntu Documentation Team,
>
> My name is Mark Luce, I'm an American living in Austria and I work at a software company in Vienna named Braintribe IT Technologies GmbH, we produce a type of Document Management Systems but much more powerful than that appellative would imply; here's our link; http://www.braintribe.net/en/index.html#
>
> The reason for which I write to you is that I am in the Documentation department and I wanted to use real world examples of documents that the IT departments of companies/organizations who are presently and will become our customers, can relate to and are familiar with, and of course I naturally thought of you and your product because it is open source and in use worldwide either alone or in conjunction with Windows. I am formally asking you permission if I can use various components of Ubuntu as screen shots for our documentation process; I would be using images (mainly your famous Crane) and a few PDF Manuals like "Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.10.pdf" which is only seen as a title in our system.  I can submit a few samples of my work for your viewing evaluation.
>
> Sincerely Yours,
>
> Mark Luce
>
>
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