Hi all, I'm Croatian translation coordinator for OOo, and I support The Document Foundation and LibreOffice.
I have question on this topic. Is there any possibility that Oracle *can* sue OpenOffice.org contributor who signed a contract about sharing the contributor's copyright only because contributor decide to contribute to LibO with same content, too? For example, I signed contract with Sun Microsystems. Oracle has bought Sun Microsystems. I contribute Croatian translation to OOo. Same content + new translation I contribute to LibO. Can I be sued? Best, Robetr Sedak On 2.10.2010 21:01, Dr. Bernhard Dippold wrote: > Hi all, > > just starting to collect additional FAQ entries to be added to > http://www.documentfoundation.org/faq/ > > Please provide questions and answers you think to be important, improve my > wordings and content, if I'm not clear enough or simply wrong. > > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- > > Q: What are copyright agreements (CA/JCA/SCA) with Oracle and why are they > counterproductive to OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice and FOSS? > > A: Every contributor to OpenOffice.org code has to sign a contract about > sharing the contribution's copyright with Oracle. As this agreement can't be > retracted it covers all future contributions too. This allows Oracle to > behave as the copyright owner, claiming copyright infringement and other > legal rights. > On the other hand this agreement allows them to release the contribution > under any license they want to, including proprietary ones, without the > contributor having any right to refuse it. > > -+-+-+-+-+--+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- > > Best regards > > Bernhard > > > -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
