On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Drew Jensen <drewjensen.in...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Howdy folks,
>
> First I want to thank Jean Weber for making this email possible.
>
> Recently I had need to work on a document regarding AOO for a disk project
> I'm working on and I wanted to use an existing resource from the ODF
> Authors group, specifically the custom template used to generate the user
> guides the group produces. That template was (is) dual licensed
> GPL/CC-BY-SA 3.0.
>
> What I wanted however was the option to license the derived work under he
> Apache license - so using the original template as, ah a template, I
> proceeded to make some changes, but in the end the text which describes how
> to use it was predominantly from Jean.
>
> I just got the email from her giving me permission to re-license my updated
> file and I will make this new template available to the project dual
> licensed as Apache 2.0 and CC-By-SA, which will allow anyone basing a final
> work on the template to license as either or both.
>
> So, a few quick questions for the group here.
> Easy one first- the template includes a contact email for reporting any
> problems or suggestions, the original listed the ODF Authors discuss
> mailing list and I would assume for this new one he right answer is this
> list, yes?
>
> Location - since I'm still a bit out of the loop is there a spot on either
> wiki where folks would want this?
>
> Copyright - The original template is set to default to a copyright for ODF
> Authors, I assume (oh such a bad word) that here the copyright would be
> left to the author(s) and not the ASF or maybe so, or maybe so sometimes..
> ??
>
> So - the template is ready to go and I'll wait for response(s) to those
> easy questions and look to post it up when next I'm tethered to the global
> tracking system next ;)
>
> //drew
>
All of our basic documentation except for Release Notes is still using the
"original" wiki --
wiki.openoffice.org
so I would think that might be the best place.
But, I think the folks on the documentation mailing list --
d...@openoffice.apache.org -- might offer specific suggestions as far as
placement goes.
Just my .02.
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