Re: Boilerplate copyright agreement for commercial exploitation

["Luis Villa" <luis villa gmail com>]

On 5/15/06, Dave Neary <dneary free fr> wrote:
> Selon Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>:
>
> > On Sul, 2006-05-14 at 19:52 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> > > Since lawyers talk .doc, and use revision control to track changes to the
> > > documents, that's what we ge too.
> >
> > Disappointing. I hope the foundation will reconsider that decision and
> > post its documents in open formats as well.
>
> I can certainly post a copy in ODT later in the week which gets converted into
> .doc every time we need to go to the lawyers... I won't always have the time to
> do it promptly, though.
>
> I will note that there are several high-quality free software programmes that
> can read and write the bits of the .doc format which are important for lawyers.

That doesn't make them open formats.

Luis (agreeing with Alan in general, sorry, Dave)