Hi Rob,
thanks for the explanation. I read the Document and also the README [1]
in the Symphony folder. This means, everything in the Symphony folder is
granted under the license described in that document, even if they have
a Copyright of IBM in the header like this file [2]. Excluded is
third-party or Apache OpenOffice Code which has its own license.
Did I understand that right?
[1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/symphony/trunk/README
[2]
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/symphony/trunk/main/sd/source/ui/accessibility/AccessibleEditSource.cxx
Am 05.02.2013 15:22, schrieb Rob Weir:
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Samuel Mehrbrodt <s.mehrbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to reuse the nice Clip Art from Symphony [1] in LibreOffice. Can
someone tell me which License they have? Is it under the Apache License or
copyrighted by IBM?
These are not mutually-exclusive. IBM can have a copyright on
something, and also make it available under a license. In fact, that
is how it ordinarily works. The author of a creative work
automatically has a copyright in that work. And then they can provide
a license, i.e., permission to use the work under specified terms. In
this case the license is the license described here:
http://www.apache.org/licenses/cla-corporate.txt
Regards,
-Rob
Thanks
Samuel
P.S. Thanks to IBM for open-sourcing Symphony. It has really nice
improvements.
[1]
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/symphony/trunk/main/extras/source/gallery/
