It has nothing to do with whether anything from the Symphony donation is ever released in AOO. The code has been donated and it should have its IP cleaned up. Also, the history is not needed. It is simply the headers and notices on the code as donated that is a problem. There are simple rules for how donated code is cleaned up. It should be done. That becomes the start of history as far as ASF is concerned.
If anyone is making derivatives from that code already, including for AOO 3.5, who is cleaning up the headers? Cherry picking that code and creating patches elsewhere is not tidy. I assume you don't mean that. It is important to honor notices present on code until someone with the authority to do so removes/replaces those notices. It is simply cleaner (and legally meticulous) to clean up the code in the Symphony folder of SVN. Then anyone can do whatever they want, whether by cherry-picking, merging, testing and fixing, putting in branches for further work, etc. Meanwhile this has been sitting in a public SVN for months with notices that are toxic for those of us who consider it inappropriate to mess with [L]GPL code and especially files in that code with IBM closed-source proprietary notices on them. - Dennis PS: It was great to see your smiling face in the photos posted form ApacheCon EU. -----Original Message----- From: Pedro Giffuni [mailto:p...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 03:24 To: orc...@apache.org Cc: ooo-dev Subject: Re: Symphony IP Cleanup Taking a little break from my vacations ... - Is there anything in particular that you want to see "cleaned up"? Extracting code without the history is not exactly easy so we basically have to check wth the IBM guys anyways. There is also the issue that we only release code through the project releases and it was decided we wont do Symphony-based releases. Just like the code in experimental branches, changing the license headers doesnt imply the code has been or will be released and shouldnt be used as a base in other projects. FWIW, the code as is, has already been of use for bringing new stuff into AOO 3.5. Pedro.
