Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 75221
License not user-readable
Last modified: 2019-10-08 18:48:16 UTC
As a regular joe, the license used by the templates [1] [2] are totally unclear to me. It would be nice if the license for the templates is clarified in a user friendly way, at least by labeling them with a familiar license such as GPL, LGPL, BSD, CC etc... This will also make it much easier for linux distros to distribute these templates as packages (easy to install for end user => OOo more usable)
oops: [1] http://documentation.openoffice.org/Samples_Templates/User/template/index.html [2] http://documentation.openoffice.org/Samples_Templates/User/template_2_x/index.html
Licences are certainly readable. See http://www.openoffice.org/project/www/license.html All material supplied via http://documentation.openoffice.org/ is mostly PDL with some LGPL submissions for anything that is editble. PDF and other non-editable may be licenced via Creative Commons. With respect to templates, each template has its licence attribution embedded in Properties. As to linux distros, these are free to read the above page and decide whether or not to include any or all materials provided by this project. So this is NOT a defect but rather a request for enchnancement and has been so changed.
> With respect to templates, > each template has its licence attribution embedded in Properties. File > Properties? I tried few, there is no such info in that menu. So assuming that templates are considered editable, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to determine if the license for a specific template is PDL or LGPL without looking at each and every template (which also seem not to work).
assigning new owner
I am currently cleaning up the doc website contents. Unfortunately, there is much material with ambiguous or no licensing specified. I will look into this.
changed target
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".
All this is outdated.