Re: [libreoffice-users] License for a LO Calc document?

Hi :)
The sealed envelope trick to prove "prior art" (or something) is pretty neat.  I think it does 
depend on the laws of your country though.  I think it might be valid in the Uk but it might be 
worth looking up "Creative Commons" to see a more technical and modern approach
Regards from 
Tom :)





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> From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Tuesday, 30 July 2013, 22:48
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] License for a LO Calc document?
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> On 07/30/2013 02:33 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:16:39 -0400, csanyipal <csanyipal@gmail.com> 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > how can ( if can ) one protect her/his LO Calc document ( spreadsheet 
> > > ) with
> > > a copyright license?
> > >
> > > What is the preferred way to eg.: share a Calc document, but 
> > > protecting it
> > > from expropriate?
> > >
> > > Or is it sufficient to protect a Calc document with a password?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----
> > > Best Regards from
> > > Pál
> > > -- 
> >
> > You set a password for opening a document and another for editting. 
> > You need to set them when saving the document. For a limited 
> > distribution document this is probably adequate. You then need to 
> > distribute the passwords. In theory you know who has access and thus 
> > could be the source of any misuse.
> >
> > If you want the document to be readily accessible, read-only there is 
> > a risk for someone to expropriate your work.
>
> If you take a printed copy and a CD copy of the spreadsheet.  Add all of 
> the documentation about how, and when you made it.  Then mail it to 
> yourself.  Make sure it is sealed very, very well, so no one could say 
> you placed the stuff in the envelope at a later date.
>
> When you get it in the mail, do not open it.  Give it to your lawyer 
> inside another envelope with the same printer and CD copies and all the 
> documentation.
>
> The sealed mailing will show a postal date.  That gives you a time line 
> showing you developed it as late as such and such date.  Giving it to a 
> lawyer, or having the lawyer mail it to you can help with some later 
> legal issues that may come up.  Make sure you get input from a lawyer as 
> soon in the process as possible.
>
> That is the cheapest way of proving you came up with the "idea". But, 
> you need more, I think.  You want people to use the sheet but not steal 
> the code, right?
>
> That is a different issue.
>
> Copyright and licensing a "set of code" can be different in many ways on 
> how to protect you rights.  You should do the "simple protection" of the 
> mailing to start and then get involved with a copyright lawyer.  Next is 
> the "securing" of you spread sheet "codes" and macros.  That could be 
> done in some cases with password protections to stop people from 
> editing, or listing out, all of the cell contents and the macros 
> involved.  Some type of "execute only" option is needed.  Also, having 
> the only the cells that need to be changeable be able to be edited is a 
> good idea.
>
> How a spread sheet can do all of this.?. . . Well, I would have made a 
> program and compiled it and had it run just like the spreadsheet would 
> for showing the rows and columns.  That is one of the only ways I could 
> make sure my work not get its internal "coding" available for others to 
> read, copy, etc..
>
> Now the question a lawyer would ask. . .  What are you going to 
> licensing and for want purpose.  Are you going to allow users to 
> download the file and require them to pay you for a key or password to 
> allow it to run?  Or are you going to license the intellectual property 
> of the coding of the cells and macros?  Will you hold the copyright or 
> the "code base" and allow others to use it or are you wanting to keep 
> others from seeing what you have created but have a way to use it.
>
> There are a lot of things you need to ask yourself and these are just 
> some of the things I remember a lawyer asking me when I created an item 
> I wanted to protect as my intellectual property and stop others from 
> claiming it was theirs.
>
>
>
>
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