G'day
I would like to raise an issue that I initially wanted to check later
but since more templates are showing up it becomes equally more
pressing: Licensing of the templates.
In short, I doubt that the GPL is an applicable license due to its
"viral" nature. While it may be an option for students to use GPL'ed
templates (and thus making the derived works, essays etc, publically
available), I highly doubt that any professional will be happy to
release say the correspondence with clients (as required by the GPL).
Granted that this seems like a minor issue (after all, they are
just templates), Debian nevertheless requires a license.
Now I have started looking through DFSG compatible licenses that do not
have a "viral" component but as my exams are coming up I won't find much
time to do so in the coming weeks. Thus my question is, can anybody
think of an applicable license for the templates that is both
professionally viable and fulfills the DFSG? How are Microsoft's
templates licensed?
Regards,
jj
* Jeremy Malcolm <Jeremy@Malcolm.id.au> [2004-03-29 17:07]:
> On 29/03/2004, at 3:58 PM, Johannes Jordens wrote:
>
> >Hi!
> >I am planning to package templates (for OpenOffice and lyx at the
> >moment) that are used in all sorts of law related manners.
> >At the moment I have a few from my law school (University College
> >London)
> >and some spanish ones but naturally I would very much like to increase
> >the number.
>
> Leon Brooks <leon@nospam.cyberknights.com.au> has a nice collection of
> Australian Family Court forms in StarOffice format.
>
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