Hi. The LO docs not only have a dual license, but content includes multiple Operating systems within the same document with screenshots for MS, Mac and GNU Linux mixed up within. There would be significant clean up.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith N. McKenna" <keith.mcke...@comcast.net> To: doc@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2020 2:56:46 PM Subject: Re: How We Implament the new Documentation Process On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 14:51:59 +0100, Arrigo Marchiori wrote: > Hello Keith, All, > > I don't have any proposals at the moment, but one question: > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 12:27:20AM -0000, Keith N. McKenna wrote: > >> Greetings All; >> >> Now that the proposal is finalized unless there are major objections to >> it, I would like to start a disscussion on how do we best implament it. >> I see two possible ways to go with it. >> >> 1. We start fresh and write all new documentation Under the ALV2 >> license for 4.2.x and take what is currently on the mwiki for the 4.1.x >> series and convert it to Writer files and get it under version control >> if it is needed for a possible 4.1.9 Release. >> >> 2. Start with the already published 3.3 odt documents and upgrade those >> to version 4. This could require the work being done outside of the >> project made up of the people on doc@ do to the 3.3 docs being under >> what is considered a catagory X license and may not be able to be >> stored in an Apache repository. >> >> If we want to go with #2 there is a way around the possible repository >> problem. > > I understand from your words that there are some issues with licensing > but I cannot fully understand what is the problem. Could you please make > it more explicit? The old OpenOffice.org (ooo) documentation was duel licensed under either the GNU General Public License or the Creative Commons Attribution License, version 3.0 or later. Both are considered Catagory X licenses as defined at: https://apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x. I believe that this would mean that we can not have them in the projects repository although I need to verify that. > > Did you also mention rewriting the docs for AOO 4.2 _from scratch_? > Yes I did. It was Item 2 in my initial post. > I browsed through the archives of this ML until November 2017 but I > could not find any information about this issue. > There was a heated discussion either on this list or one dev@When we were first discussing documentation wheteher to continue using the then OOo Authors ( the seperate project that did the original documentation) web site and continuing with there lisences or starting from scratch on the mwiki with new documentation under the ALV2 licenses which was what won out. > Thank you in advance and best regards, Regards Keith --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org
