On 23 February 2015 at 03:41, jonathon <toki.kant...@gmail.com> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 23/02/15 00:15, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > > > > Copyleft licenses, namely the GNU GPL, are enforced through specific > > actions by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and the Free Software > > Foundation (FSF): an ascertained violation due to inclusion of copyleft > > code in a proprietary product results in the obligation to make the > > entire product source code available to the public. The Apache License > > avoids this risk and the associated needs for more employee education > > and more internal audits. > > > I'd suggest deleting that paragraph. > For starters, the SFLC & FSF are neither the only organizations to > distribute software under the GNU GPL, nor the only organizations to > file lawsuits based on GNU GPL violations. > I second that. I really like the rest of the documentation, but the last paragraph is not needed. We have no business telling how other licenses work. Alternatively, rephrase it. > > Software distributed under The Apache License can be included in > proprietary software, without the legal obligation of releasing the > entire source code tree, to the users of the program. All that is > required, is an attribution of the Apache Licensed source code. > > The Apache License reduces: > * The need for employee education; > * The frequency of internal audits; > * The intensity of internal audits; > That could also work, because it does not mention the other licenses. rgds jan i. > > jonathon > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJU6pNbAAoJEKG7hs8nSMR7E8kQAIklccMeKesrd+RaNhjbx4Pu > DPbEQM64aO6oWHQij7MEZZFONo9jd0PO9RSzh4puF+Kn3xmLMOkqgQJtUW+h9v5t > Sc+I/43gangig4UwH1Mt3kcpR8ZyG/A8H5osw1vDmT/zj5BlX8AhJ8qSXC4YuzXD > nyB7RrlRCZqpN3lI03/CibzP6KfN7Qd7aocdRT+p5AFO1T+4zvfmZATPz04YXHAZ > X59aFtJkIon0toraWfFPFdNRjZdpcI3jekCxPRmGOHFoCTumyNlgCIc6u8JjfsR+ > 3XFxVnO2gsdAN10TBg498itC2BQ1ZIQO/9R2ZrRGwbioMbo9TNCroz205TxmvoPx > iMLfZU1YthbmrG1+KGFLSNMw5P7g5qPKVGrO+geNoLYXH9Ww4Mgl0uO/YGRVjDi/ > n0hdUA61Rn4aEaalChmipMad8vitYZuZaiY/aR1RrcMJnmg5u3DCsrBNtTUnepYR > Mk17JhyG9bS83Qm5DaRi5QQif1+fNZQtVGlzlme4FIACriSggyFxySw6Dkk71VmM > C4e1+s6SnrBEyPWbvOZOdu/sHFOyg/XUzKgzX3y7bAW0vFlGPSdzXP6ldgWaX8nY > Kfj6i6B5j4qQuzLs40pY6sxTLFdxm6vttuHxuQXffC4R1SSygDlE4C8mjYPE8T6q > ZXZHAmpKcWXR14kYloo4 > =MrUr > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
