The code is owned by comunity (1500+ individual people) not by TDF. Each developer own our part from code.
And I don't think that majority from this people want to change the licence, because with LGPL+MPL the whole LO code need to be leave open, with apache licence the code can be closed, like IMB Symphony grab the OOo code, and close it. 2017. 01. 11. 11:55 keltezéssel, FR web forum írta: > TDF could be give up these copyleft licences. > Maybe, we could create a petition to ask this > LibO, please bring back to AL v2 licence > :-) > > ----- Mail original ----- > De: "Patricia Shanahan" <p...@acm.org> > À: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Envoyé: Mercredi 11 Janvier 2017 09:44:26 > Objet: Re: future of OpenOffice > > On 1/10/2017 11:29 PM, Nagy Ákos wrote: >> Hi, >> >> it is impossible, because the LO license is LGPL+MPL, that can't be >> merged in OpenOffice. > That choice of license was very unfortunate, and a regrettable barrier > to cooperation between the projects. When LO split off they could have > kept the Apache license and the potential for future cooperation. > > For most of my career, the only way I had of earning a living was > writing software. The FSF's basic philosophy is that programmers should > have no right to own and control the products of their labor. That does > not seem very free to me. For that reason, I'll never donate my labor to > anything that uses their licenses. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
