+1 Robinson. I think that the "LibreOffice Documentation Team" isn't a legal entity.
So, what about: "This document is Copyright © 2014 by The Document Foundation. You may distribute or modify it under the terms of either the GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html), version 3 or later, or the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), version 3.0 or later." my 2 cents! Have a nice day, Marina ============================ Marina Latini [email protected] Studio Storti Srl Viale Leonardo da Vinci, 18 36100 - Vicenza (VI) http://www.studiostorti.com ============================ ----- Messaggio originale ----- Da: "Robinson Tryon" <[email protected]> A: "Jean Weber" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Inviato: Domenica, 26 gennaio 2014 13:15:08 Oggetto: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Changes to front cover and copyright notice required for user guides to go on Amazon On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > For distribution through Amazon etc, the front cover of the book must > include the name of the author of the book, and that name must match > the name given in the copyright statement and in the metadata we > provide to Lulu. Ok > I have been listing "LibreOffice Documentation Team" as the author in > the metadata, and I propose to change the copyright statement in each > book to read: > > "This document is Copyright © 2014 by the LibreOffice Documentation > Team. Contributors are listed below. You may distribute or modify it > under the terms of either the GNU General Public License > (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html), version 3 or later, or the > Creative Commons Attribution License > (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), version 3.0 or later." Couple of points: 1) I don't believe the "LibreOffice Documentation Team" is a legal entity, so I'm not sure that it can hold copyright (at least not in the US). 2) In general, I believe TDF/LibreOffice does not request copyright assignment, so copyright in contributions to code, wiki pages, documentation, etc.. is all held by the individual contributors, or the company/organization for which they work, if it is a work-for-hire. Here's the text we use in the 'About' box in LibreOffice: "This release was supplied by The Document Foundation. Copyright (c) 2000 - 2014 LibreOffice contributors." Thanks, --R -- 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/documentation/ 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/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
