The conversation below happened in public, but not on the OpenOffice
public lists. I believe it's good to record its outcome here on the
OpenOffice dev list too.
Summary:
- Question from Jim Jagielski: "Is a contribution under ALv2 + MPL +
LGPLv3+ acceptable to both OpenOffice and LibreOffice (and Apache
Software Foundation and The Document Foundation)?"
- Answer by the OpenOffice PMC: "Yes (speaking for the OpenOffice
project). See http://openoffice.apache.org/contributing-code.html "
No further discussion needed on the OpenOffice dev list. The ongoing
conversation can be read at:
http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/
Regards,
Andrea.
On 05/03/2013 Jim Jagielski wrote:
On Mar 5, 2013, at 10:34 AM, Jim Jagielski<j...@jagunet.com> wrote:
So far, I've rec'd an answer from AOO... I'd appreciate
an answer from TDF as well.
On Mar 4, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Jim Jagielski<j...@jagunet.com> wrote:
BTW, Please be sure that I'm on the CC list, so I get
any and all responses :)
On Mar 4, 2013, at 8:08 AM, Jim Jagielski<j...@jagunet.com> wrote:
Hello there.
This Email is being directed to the 2 controlling bodies of
the Apache OpenOffice Project and LibreOffice (TDF). You will
notice that I am sending this from my non-ASF account.
Recently, at various conferences, I have been approached by
numerous people, both 100% volunteer as well as more "corporate"
affiliated, wondering if it was OK for them to submit code,
patches and fixes to both AOO and LO at the same time. In
general, these people have code that directly patches LO
but they also want to dual-license the code such that it
can also be consumed by AOO even if it requires work and
modification for it to be committed to, and folded into,
the AOO repo. My response has always been that as the
orig author of their code/patches/whatever, they can
license their contributions as they see fit. However,
I have been told that they have rec'd word that such
dual-licensed code would not be accepted by, or acceptable
to, either the AOO project and/or LO and/or TDF and/or
the ASF.
Therefore, I am asking for official confirmation from
both projects and both entities that both projectsSo
are fully OK with accepting code/patches/etc that
are licensed in such a way as to be 100% consumable
by both projects. For example, if I have a code patch
which is dual-licensed both under LGPLv3 and ALv2, that
such a patch would be acceptable to both LO and AOO.
Thank you.
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