Hello Robert, Thank you very much for volunteering! I'll keep this message very brief because I am at the end of a long work day and not feeling very coherent. Regarding your question, it is probably best to consider what the likely situation will be rather than all possible licensing scenarios. There is a body of documentation licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ) that would provide a rich resource for documenting the current version of OpenOffice. The current plan, I believe, is to work under the permissions of that license. You would have a copyright to what you write but you would license many of those rights to anyone who has a copy of your work. Please take a look at the web page I linked and perhaps the license itself. I'm sure people here would be happy to discuss any questions you have, though I don't think we have any lawyers on this list. Regards, Francis
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 8:53 PM Robert Farrell <robertfarr...@embarqmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I’m a technical writer who has worked on documentation for medical devices > and software. I have been using OpenOffice for several years for other > projects, and have always appreciated the open source nature of the > software. > > I have never worked on a project where documentation is licensed. > Everything I’ve worked on has been work-for-hire and copyrighted (which > means, of course, no attributions) as opposed to licensing. What do I need > to take into consideration when creating documentation for this project? > > Thanks > > > Robert Farrell > robertfarr...@embarqmail.com > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
