It is not clear to me that the Apache OpenOffice statement answers the question as it was asked at [tdf-discuss]. I read Jim's question as being about multi-licensing (dual- or more). Not about a contributor making a contribution of their original work in two places and under different licenses in each place. That's very different.
If the AOO page is considered an affirmative response to Jim's question, then so is Florian Effenberger's pointing to The Document Foundation license-policy page, <https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/License_Policy>. For me, multi-licensing would be a kind of one-stop contribution that allows the contribution to be used by those who obtain it in accordance with whichever of the multi-licensings they choose. Nothing is done to facilitate that by either project. Furthermore, all of the licenses that are considered have strings on how a contri- bution is accounted for in any combined/derivative work. By the way, there is no mention of the Apache License (any version) in the iCLA that is offered to the ASF and that all committers have on record. It strikes me that a contribution in accordance with the default case in section 5 of the ALv2 is similarly entirely about sections 2, 3 and related definitions. The sections about recipients is not something that governs the contributor's use of their own contribution (a good reason those are not in the iCLA, since an iCLA is entirely about contribution). Cf. <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>. The manner in which TDF collects license grants is rather different, with contributors specifying the licenses that their work can be released under (i.e., they are multi-licensing their contributions). >From all of this, you can surmise what I mean to accomplish by my blanket, public grants regarding my contributions to LibreOffice and Apache projects, so that anyone can make us of those contributions, no matter which project the contributed is made to, with the same permissiveness granted to the ASF in an Apache iCLA. And that can be done without my having to make direct contributions in more than one of those places. - Dennis PS: I am not cross-posting this response. I shall forward my part to [tdf-discuss] however. -----Original Message----- From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2013 02:40 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Cc: Jim Jagielski; disc...@documentfoundation.org; i...@documentfoundation.org Subject: Re: Dual licensing of patches and code 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. [ ... ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org