On 10/09/2014 Markus Wernig wrote:
OK, this sounds like good news. So if the developers of the original (currently broken) code and those of the (to be developed) fix agree to, eg. license it under both MPL and AL, we could use both code parts in both LO and AOO?
Even Apache License version 2 (in short: ALv2) only would be enough. I haven't become a lawyer in the three hours that separate this mail from my earlier one, but ALv2 is meant to be permissive enough for everybody to reuse code and we see code reuse happening regularly.
what are the steps to be taken once development has finished? In what form does that consent (the double-licensing) have to be stated and to whom?
Patches can be attached to Bugzilla: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/ and this is enough, in normal cases, for us to consider it contributed. But make the agreements before developing, not when it's finished. And ask to have a result in the form of a patch that can actually be applied to version X of program Y and work, since patches may need to be adapted for different codebases.
we would need an AOO committer to do that, as currently none of the devs in question have commit rights to AOO, from what I know. Is there a designated process for that?
This isn't really an issue. I integrated three patches from non-committers in the last three days. If something is in Bugzilla and it is very useful and well-documented and works, and the original author wants to contribute it to OpenOffice, finding a solution is easy.
Thanks again for bearing with me and for any insight ...
Don't ask too far. Please go by steps. If you want to reuse code from another project in OpenOffice, that code has to be made available under ALv2, or any group of licenses that includes ALv2 (there are other possibilities, but since I'm not a lawyer I can spare you those, and anyway they have no practical value). This is the first step.
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