Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

----- Original Message ----

> From: Florian Effenberger <floeff@documentfoundation.org>
> Greg Stein wrote on 2011-06-14 17.09:
> > It is simply that  newbie's have NO UNDERSTANDING of this. Florian had
> > to explain all the  details because they are not on the website.
>
> I guess the truth lies in  between. :-)
>
> Indeed, we seem to lack some comprehensible page directly  reachable with all 
> the details. However, we have been regular announcing status  and facts via 
> e-mail, our blog, social networks, and the donations ("challenge")  page has 
> also some background on it.

My primary point is that to side-line the discussion (of which Greg was 
responding to, and I assume you are too) the text at the bottom of each webpage 
on the LO website which presently reads as follows:


Privacy Policy | Impressum (Legal Info) | Copyright information: Unless 
otherwise specified, all text       and images on this website are licensed 
under the Creative Commons       Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. This does 
not include the source code of LibreOffice, which is licensed under the GNU 
Lesser General       Public License (LGPLv3).
"LibreOffice" and "The Document Foundation" are registered trademarks. Their 
respective logos and icons are subject to       international copyright laws. 
The use of these therefore is subject to our trademark policy. 



should be updated to reflect the legal reality that while TDF is being setup it 
is an sub-entity of FroDeV; listing out who specifically owns the trademarks, 
etc. That would go a long way in saying TDF is or is backed by an actual legal 
entity, and not something that is simply a project put together by a lot of 
people without any legal standing. (The above was specifically taken from the  
http://www.documentfoundation.org/faq/ webpage.)

Note: I am not saying anything about the actual legal standing of TDF in this 
e-mail; just pointing out how that legal standing could be _better_ communicated 
to by-standers and visitors of the TDF/LO websites - of which there are many 
more than are known by the community, or participate in the community - e.g. 
reporters that go on the website for some tidbit of information, or someone 
looking to simply download LO for use.

$0.02

Ben


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