Andy,
in a rush today, so anything more than a couple of lines will have to
wait 'til I've landed, but:
On Apr 13, 2008, at 3:45 AM, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
Gianugo Rabellino wrote:
As all things legal with software, we are faced with two potential
issues here: one is copyright (that is "who wrote that?"), and the
other is patents (as in "is the copyright holder authorized to
write that code?"). Let's address the two separately, please.
From a copyright perspective let's assume, for the sake of
discussion, that I *am* right when I'm saying that a large chunk
of the actual POI contribution is (c) Sourcesense, with possibly
some bits (c) of other POI committers, and that's it from a
copyright perspective. Let's also hypothetically assume Microsoft
itself didn't produce any kind of copyrighted contribution, either
directly (via Microsoft employees) or indirectly (via WFH
agreements and the like): if you assume that's the
Unless you have a contract that says it is not WFH, if they are
paying for the work then. Regarding this though, if you state that
you have covered your basis here contractually and have the (C)
rightfully then your word will be good enough for me on that Gianugo.
I'm happy to (re)state this. Sourcesense owns the copyright to their
contribution to the OOXML branch of POI.
Would that be enough?
Ciao,
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Gianugo Rabellino
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