Hi all, Am 24.06.22 um 20:57 schrieb laszlo.nem...@documentfoundation.org: > Hi Andreas, > > On 2022-06-24 17:51, Andreas Mantke wrote: > (..) >> >> I also have no idea why it's not possible to work on a common ground of >> LOOL (LibreOffice Online) and why it is/was instead necessary to fork >> the code away from the LibreOffice community and rename it. >> If I look over the fence into another OSS community there is no such >> behavior. Maybe because the license is GPL and there is a contributor >> assignment for the foundation in place (or there is more common spirit >> in the project and the professional contributors are more divers). > > I'm sorry about the change, too. I don't know the details, maybe LOOL was > never a core LibreOffice development, but it seems, there was no > choice for > Collabora Productivity, only forking. Likely the reason is known for the > former TDF board, and Michael Meeks wrote about it, too, see "Why is > Collabora Online its own project?" in > https://collaboraonline.github.io/post/faq/.
the faq and the linked info graphic showed the perception of the company of itself and its view on the LibreOffice community and project. > > Forking is possible for everyone, but only with renaming. So it was > very unfair to write about that renaming is some evil thing, while > that was likely a mandatory trade mark issue for Collabora > Productivity, too. It's not necessary to change the naming of the upstream project or create a second competing project, if you want to use the code from the upstream project to develop a (commercial) derivative. The MPL license is as far as I know open for such derivative work. Regards, Andreas -- ## Free Software Advocate ## Plone add-on developer ## My blog: http://www.amantke.de/blog -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
