Gianugo Rabellino wrote:
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,
That thread is insufficient. I'm still -1 on the commit. Get explicit clarification on the OSP from an actual lawyer or Microsoft. I support you having believes and practicing them, so long as they don't endanger POI and its users which I believe you to be doing. I believe that you are behaving a bit irresponsibly at the moment.
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