Le 5 févr. 08 à 17:30, Michael Meeks a écrit :
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 00:05 +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
But now that I think about it, since SUN holds the copyright to the
code it would be actually possible for SUN to make modifications to
the code without releasing it and that may well happen in StarOffice.
Sure - so (it seems to me) rather hard for anyone except Sun to
prosecute an LGPL violation here -
Indeed, they're the copyright holder of the entirety of the code.
since it's quite possible that these
guys have a confidential agreement with Sun that makes it perfectly
legal for them to rip off people's code, and their customers, and get
away with it. How can we know that is not the case ? How can anyone be
sure if litigation was commenced, Sun wouldn't just settle for cash.
One of the deep joys of the JCA with it's single steward.
A quite practical situation, even if the terms of the JCA themselves
could certainly be improved. But after all you know the benefits of
such copyright covenants, as Gnome and Evolution provide their
developers with similar terms.
Of course, the main difference here is that it's up to Sun, not to
Novell to call the shots. And despite the existence of legal
agreements between Sun and MS, at least we're not being infected as a
result of the active and lavish collaboration of your company with
Redmond. In short, criticzing the JCA may be valid, but it's
particularly unappropriate - or perhaps just pathetic- coming from you.
Is there an update on Butler Office ? they clearly have a nerve using
Microsoft's Office logo & claiming 100% compatibility too ;-)
And in that regard, they're not that different from Novell. But don't
you think Sun developers on this list would know if their company was
in business with Butler?
Best,
Charles.
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