On 11/5/12, Peter Junge <peter.ju...@gmx.org> wrote: > Rob, *, > > On 10/29/2012 8:08 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Peter Junge <peter.ju...@gmx.org> >> wrote: >>> On 10/24/2012 10:23 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Peter Junge <peter.ju...@gmx.org> >>>> wrote: >>>>> > > [..] > >>>> Surely you as moderator have received the attachments? Just get on >>>> with it and explain what the request it. Asking the sender to debug >>>> this is probably not going to work. >>> >>> >>> It already worked half way. I prefer to help people to help themselves. >>> That >>> makes it easier for them to come back later, standing on their own feet. >>> >> >> Do you really think that we'll hear from them again? Even if the same >> company needed permission from us again (unlikely) the chances are >> that we'd get a request from a different employee. Taking time to >> explain the technical limitations of our mailing list to a random >> office worker is not an investment that will ever pay off. > > Yes, I do. It's no company but a academic research center is contacting > us. They want to use materials about Calc for their courses. It's not > unlikely that a similar request about Writer will follow. The requester > is not a random office worker but a director of that institute. > >> >> All that is happening is we're delaying getting this request to the >> party that actually has the authority to grant permission, namely V.P. >> Branding, Since the trademarks@ mailing list does accept attachments, >> isn't the easiest resolution to ask them to forward their request to >> trademarks@ ??? > > I don't think the request is time critical. Otherwise, I would certainly > have taken action before. The request is also not about using the > OpenOffice trademark, but about reusing materials from the old wiki for > curricula. That should already been licensed under Creative Commons or > similar. I don't think trademarks@ need to be involved. > > However, you seem right in this case that things sometimes don't work. I > want to upload the PDF to a web space so I can send a link to the list. > Does Apache have a public FTP server where one may put such documents?
i would expect the insititute having a webspace on their own to upload files or materials. > > Peter > >> >> -Rob >> >> >>> Peter >>> >>> >>>> >>>> -Rob >>>> >>>>> Peter >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -Rob >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Please, do not send one request for permission per every screen >>>>>>> shot. >>>>>>> Just >>>>>>> contact this list (ooo-...@incubator.apache.org) and describe your >>>>>>> concern >>>>>>> in general. I'm sure we'll find an easy solution. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> For now, I'm not moderating your other messages through because the >>>>>>> attachments will be stripped of anyway. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Best regards, >>>>>>> Peter >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 10/23/2012 5:30 PM, ILLL Copyright wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Please find the attachment. > -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
