Re: Re-licensing the documentation provided by Sun Microsystems

[Tobias Mueller <muelli cryptobitch de>]

Hi doc folks.


We have received a request reg. licensing of the gucharmap documentation.

Does anybody know whether a relicensing is still required?

Cheers,
  Tobi

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 01:34:05PM +0530, Mayuresh Nirhali wrote:
> Hello GNOME board members,
>
> I am Mayuresh Nirhali, responsible for GNOME desktop on Solaris at Oracle.
>
> This is regarding a request from the community that was made for 
> relicensing the documentation that was contributed by the Desktop team 
> at Oracle (Sun Microsystems then).
>
> <snip>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Relicencing gucharmap and Oracle Copyright
> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:09:29 +0100
> From: Baptiste Mille-Mathias<baptiste millemathias gmail com>
> To:brian cameron oracle com
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> I'm part of the GNOME documentation team, and currently I'm converting
> the gucharmap documentation from docbook to mallard fomat, which
> requires also to change the licence to Creative
> Common Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0).
> The problem is Oracle has some copyright on this material, and I
> wanted to know if you could see with Oracle to grant its permission to
> change the licence of the documentation.
> Do you think it is possible ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Regards
> -- 
> Baptiste Mille-Mathias
> Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés
> [w]http://damnpeople.fr
>
> </snip>
>
> The request was made to Brian Cameron, and Brian forwarded this to me 
> I have been trying to follow up with Baptiste if this is still something 
> that the GNOME community is pursuing which I could take up with Oracle 
> Legal.
>
> Can someone from the board members help me confirm this ?
> Since this is a legal matter, I thought I would start from the board 
> list, please let me know if I should be reaching out to someone else.
>
> I have not been able to make it to GUADEC yet, but I am sure it is a 
> successful event, as ever.