[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 132664] The posts that I made here, also appear somewhere else?

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132664

--- Comment #3 from Ming Hua <ming.v.hua at qq.com> ---
Hi bart-dn,

I'm not a lawyer, just a layman interested in open source copyright and
licensing stuff, so feel free to ignore my opinion.

(In reply to bart-dn from comment #2)
> (In reply to Ming Hua from comment #1)
> > Since comments made here are considered to be licensed under CC-BY-SA (see
> > the legal stuff at the end of this page), and Launchpad gives links to the
> > original bug it copied from, I think they did everything by the book and
> > there is nothing to worry about.
>
> Thank you for chiming in, I checked a few things and this is what I found:
> 
> https://creativecommons.org/faq/#who-gives-permission-to-use-material-
> offered-under-creative-commons-licenses :
> 
> "Our licenses and legal tools are intended for use by anyone who holds
> copyright in the material. This is often, but not always, the creator."
> 
> I'm the creator of my posts, and I haven't granted licenses under CC-BY-SA
> to anyone. Ubuntu's Launchpad cannot use my work as they please.
Like I said, at the bottom of each Bugzilla page (including this one), there is

"Copyright information: Please note that all contributions to The Document
Foundation Bugzilla are considered to be released under the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, unless otherwise specified."

So saying you haven't granted licenses to anyone doesn't make it so.

>   I also found the following:
> 
> https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ :
> 
> "If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute
> your contributions under the same license as the original."
> 
> This means that Ubuntu's Launchpad had to add something like:
>    "This information was released under CC-BY-SA"
> 
> Instead, at the bottom of that page I find:
>    "© 2004-2020 Canonical Ltd". 
Copyright and licensing are two separate issues.  For the licensing of
Launchpad's bug tracker, there is this:

"All bug comments are the property of the people who created them. Metadata and
statistics generated by the Launchpad Bug Tracker are the property of Canonical
Ltd and may be used freely for any purpose as long as accreditation and the
Launchpad URL are given along with that data."

from https://help.launchpad.net/Legal, which sounds close enough to BY-SA to
me.

> Actually, I'm not interested in the legal aspects of this topic. I'm more
> interested in the reasonable aspects of this topic.
The problem is, here on LibreOffice Bugzilla there's nothing we can do or want
to do unless there is a legal issue.  The reasonable-ness issue is probably
best raised in Ubuntu/Launchpad channels.

Just my two cents.

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