Hi :) The sealed envelope trick to prove "prior art" (or something) is pretty neat. I think it does depend on the laws of your country though. I think it might be valid in the Uk but it might be worth looking up "Creative Commons" to see a more technical and modern approach Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, 30 July 2013, 22:48 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] License for a LO Calc document? > > >On 07/30/2013 02:33 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: >> On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:16:39 -0400, csanyipal <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> how can ( if can ) one protect her/his LO Calc document ( spreadsheet >>> ) with >>> a copyright license? >>> >>> What is the preferred way to eg.: share a Calc document, but >>> protecting it >>> from expropriate? >>> >>> Or is it sufficient to protect a Calc document with a password? >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> Best Regards from >>> Pál >>> -- >>> >> >> You set a password for opening a document and another for editting. >> You need to set them when saving the document. For a limited >> distribution document this is probably adequate. You then need to >> distribute the passwords. In theory you know who has access and thus >> could be the source of any misuse. >> >> If you want the document to be readily accessible, read-only there is >> a risk for someone to expropriate your work. >> > >If you take a printed copy and a CD copy of the spreadsheet. Add all of >the documentation about how, and when you made it. Then mail it to >yourself. Make sure it is sealed very, very well, so no one could say >you placed the stuff in the envelope at a later date. > >When you get it in the mail, do not open it. Give it to your lawyer >inside another envelope with the same printer and CD copies and all the >documentation. > >The sealed mailing will show a postal date. That gives you a time line >showing you developed it as late as such and such date. Giving it to a >lawyer, or having the lawyer mail it to you can help with some later >legal issues that may come up. Make sure you get input from a lawyer as >soon in the process as possible. > >That is the cheapest way of proving you came up with the "idea". But, >you need more, I think. You want people to use the sheet but not steal >the code, right? > >That is a different issue. > >Copyright and licensing a "set of code" can be different in many ways on >how to protect you rights. You should do the "simple protection" of the >mailing to start and then get involved with a copyright lawyer. Next is >the "securing" of you spread sheet "codes" and macros. That could be >done in some cases with password protections to stop people from >editing, or listing out, all of the cell contents and the macros >involved. Some type of "execute only" option is needed. Also, having >the only the cells that need to be changeable be able to be edited is a >good idea. > >How a spread sheet can do all of this.?. . . Well, I would have made a >program and compiled it and had it run just like the spreadsheet would >for showing the rows and columns. That is one of the only ways I could >make sure my work not get its internal "coding" available for others to >read, copy, etc.. > >Now the question a lawyer would ask. . . What are you going to >licensing and for want purpose. Are you going to allow users to >download the file and require them to pay you for a key or password to >allow it to run? Or are you going to license the intellectual property >of the coding of the cells and macros? Will you hold the copyright or >the "code base" and allow others to use it or are you wanting to keep >others from seeing what you have created but have a way to use it. > >There are a lot of things you need to ask yourself and these are just >some of the things I remember a lawyer asking me when I created an item >I wanted to protect as my intellectual property and stop others from >claiming it was theirs. > > > > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
