Re: [libreoffice-users] shifting focus to licencing

Nino Novak wrote:
> Am 14.08.2013 18:39, schrieb Dave Barton:
> > Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> > > On 08/13/2013 02:32 AM, Dave Barton wrote:
> > > > 1. http://www.oooforum.org The independent "unofficial" one Jim was
> > > > referring to. For reasons nobody has been able to explain, their server
> > > > is at best unreliable and frequently times out.
> > > oooforum was setup and is controlled by a single very busy person with
> > > no help from anyone else in any way. So, it uses resources available to
> > > this person and is maintained by this person. The other forum is
> > > maintained by a group of volunteers so there are more people to fix it.
> so this looks to me like people have contributed to a site which took
> their knowledge but later did (or does) not present it back to the
> public in a satisfactory way.

Based on my years of experience as a user of the site, I seriously doubt
that this was/is the owner's intention.

> Two thoughts:
>
> 1 - Does the owner sufficently understand the public need for high
> availability of the forum's content?

I am convinced that he does. The problem appears to be twofold:
  1. His personal workload prevents him from giving sufficient attention
to server administration and spam elimination.
  2. His reluctance to accept much (if any) outside assistance.

> 2 - How is the forum's content licenced?

I have never found any notice on the site to indicate what the content
licence is. IANAL, but the absence of such I notice and no mention of
content licensing in the "Registration Agreement Terms", would lead me
to believe the content is public domain, just like this email.

> Nino

The good news is that the site is currently accessible, albeit with the
usual amount of spam adorning the main page.

Dave



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