AOO does not allow CC licensed material. That’s a major part of the problem of reuse. However, the body of documentation is also licensed under GPL, which is sort-of allowed, with restrictions.
Jean On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 15:52 F Campos Costero <fjcc.apa...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > >
