On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote: > > Let me start with a request. If we are going to have a productive > discussion, it would be best if it were done using respectful terms. If, > however, as described below it is the intent of TDF [...]
we can start by working under the predicat that, unless specified otherwise, any comments are the author's own and not representing anybody else? > OpenOffice.org is not uniformly licensed. [..] > > If is licensed to many under one license, and LibreOffice has continued with > that license. It is licensed to others under a different license. I thought we were talking about FLOSS here... not about what proprietary forks may or may not have done. > I believe that the key phrase in that comment is "objections to contributing > code to be used in proprietary apps". A fundamental goal of the Apache > license is to satisfy the needs of those that wish to include the code in > Free and proprietary software alike. Yes, I am aware of that 'feature'. I just happen to consider it a bug. > I believe that if we want to attract everyone alike to contributing to a > common code base -- wherever it resides -- then we need to establish this as > a common goal. How exactly encouraging proprietary fork will attract contribution ? you are relying on the ethic and moral sens of corporation ? If only we had real life examples to give us clues on how realistic that is... humm... > > If we do this, clearly there is much work that would need to be done. It > will involve getting the consent of those that participate in this > foundation and LibreOffice to relicense their work. It won't be easy, but I > will be a part of making it happen. The very reason I decided to show-up was because 1/ the license was copy-left and 2/ TDF dropped the copyright assignment. (of course I found many other reasons to stay... but that's another topic :-) ) So I'd say... yes it won't be easy indeed, but I guess it won't be harder than to convince AF not to cater to proprietary sink-hole... But there is another solution, one that has happened in the past: convince the company with a proprietary fork that if they are truly interested in community support and contributions, they should join that community under terms that protect both our interest, not just its interests. Norbert -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
