On Apr 13, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
I'm happy to (re)state this. Sourcesense owns the copyright to
their contribution to the OOXML branch of POI.
On that point but not the patent.
Good, at least that's a step forward.
Would that be enough?
Resolve the patent issue and it will be.
I don't think there is a lot to be done on this side. I personally
believe the OSP is enough to let us work on OOXML. You think that's
not the case. Stalemate? Not quite. The POI PMC has asked for an
explicit clearance to the ASF legal team, and got a green light. To
me that's pretty much all we need, and any further discussion on
whether the OSP (or whatever the new ISO/ECMA patent rules for OOXML
are) is acceptable or not shouldn't even fall within the remit of the
PMC itself, as that's a clear competence of the legal counsel. I can
only reiterate my invite to discuss the matter where it belongs
(starting from legal-discuss and maybe expanding on http://
tinyurl.com/58uk2v): the POI PMC will then just have to abide by
whatever the decision of Apache's powers that be is.
Ciao,
--
Gianugo Rabellino
Sourcesense - making sense of Open Source: http://www.sourcesense.com
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