Wikipedia content in LO Help

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#1

Hi,

in LO Help for data analysis functions, a few of paragraphs are copied from English Wikipedia. Since there is no citation of the source, I doubt it is a correct reuse. I'm not even sure if it is possible to reuse Wikipedia texts without changes of license of the derived work.
Does someone of you know any details about this?

Best regards,
Stanislav

#2

Hi Stanislav,

Hi,

in LO Help for data analysis functions, a few of paragraphs are copied
from English Wikipedia. Since there is no citation of the source, I
doubt it is a correct reuse. I'm not even sure if it is possible to
reuse Wikipedia texts without changes of license of the derived work.
Does someone of you know any details about this?

Thanks for the head up, you're right, UI and Help are under LGPLv3+MPL.
Do you know the commit of this changes? Did you open an issue?
Thanks,
Cheers
Sophie

#3

Hi,

Thanks for the head up, you're right, UI and Help are under LGPLv3+MPL.
Do you know the commit of this changes? Did you open an issue?

I think all of them were added in the Olivier's description of data analysis functions:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/help/commit/?id=ba90edc72a3eedc95f2a2bd2c6923b860cc3e4d8

I can open an issue, but I still don't know how to solve this - if citation notices are sufficient, I can add them directly to the Help.

Best regards,
Stanislav

#4

So reading the patch there is the link to Wikipedia citing the source in
it. But I'll check if it could be a problem or not and will keep you
informed.

Cheers
Sophie

#5

The patch also says:

"This is a text to get a mimnimum help for Calc Data Statistics. It can
be improved with better english and better maths."

Regards,

#6

Hi :slight_smile:
There's a minor typo. "mimnimum" should, of course, be "minimum".

I think most English speakers have done that sort of typo quite often
so i think we are mostly familiar with ignoring such typos and reading
the word as if the typo wasn't there.

So i am not sure if it's even worth changing this time around because
it actually clarifies how better English might improve things. Err,
the E on English should probably be upper-case too but that is even
less worth changing if it is non-trivial to edit! :wink:
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#7

Hi all,

Hi,

in LO Help for data analysis functions, a few of paragraphs are copied
from English Wikipedia. Since there is no citation of the source, I
doubt it is a correct reuse. I'm not even sure if it is possible to
reuse Wikipedia texts without changes of license of the derived work.
Does someone of you know any details about this?

So an update on this. The help content as well as the UI files are under
LGPLv2 and MPLv3 licenses, like the rest of the code. The MPLv3 doesn't
allow to embed parties under CC licenses, parts have to be under MPLv3 too.
The concerned parts will be removed and for the future, have to be
written from scratch.
However, it's still possible to add a link to external parts in the
help, even if it's not the best for those with no Internet access or
costly bandwith.

Cheers
Sophie

#8

Hi, resending as the list address was wrong