[cc-community] PRESS RELEASE: Creative Commons Releases Add-in Support for OpenOffice.org
Jon Phillips
jon at creativecommons.org
Wed Nov 14 23:09:26 EST 2007
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 19:43 -0800, Aaron Shaw wrote:
> congratulations! that's wonderful.
>
> any word on whether this extension is compatible with neo office?
>
> -Aaron
Good question...why don't you test it and report back!
Jon
> On Nov 14, 2007 1:21 PM, Nathan R. Yergler
> <nathan at creativecommons.org> wrote:
> PDF attached; text below
>
> San Francisco, CA — November 14, 2007
>
> Today Creative Commons released an Add-in for OpenOffice.org
> which
> allows users to select and embed a Creative Commons license in
> documents. Based on work completed as part of the Google
> Summer of Code
> by Cassio Melo, the add-in supports Writer (word processing
> documents),
> Calc (spreadsheets) and Impress (presentations).
>
> Google Summer of Code provides students with funding to work
> on open
> source software between May and August. During summer 2007,
> Cassio
> worked on developing the basic OpenOffice.org add-in. Cassio
> was
> mentored by Nathan Yergler, Creative Commons CTO, and
> generously
> supported by Google's Open Source programs. "Cassio provided a
> great
> foundation for us to build on and maintain. I'm thrilled to
> finally be
> able to offer support for OpenOffice.org," said Yergler.
>
> The Add-in is available without charge, and is licensed under
> the GNU
> General Public License. Download information and links to
> source code
> are available at
> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OpenOfficeOrg_Addin.
>
> About Creative Commons
>
> Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in
> 2001, that
> promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic
> works, whether
> owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright
> licenses,
> Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and
> educators the
> choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms that
> build upon
> the "all rights reserved" concept of traditional copyright to
> enable a
> voluntary "some rights reserved" approach. Creative Commons is
> sustained
> by the generous support of organizations including the John D.
> and
> Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Omidyar Network, the
> Hewlett
> Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, as well as members
> of the
> public. For more information about Creative Commons, visit
> http://creativecommons.org.
>
> Contact
>
> Nathan Yergler
> Chief Technology Officer
> Creative Commons
> nathan at creativecommons.org
>
> Press Kit
>
> http://creativecommons.org/presskit
>
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> Creative Commons
>
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>
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