Hi Andrea, ( just to mention: I did not make my mind on this yet, I'm just providing some thoughts)
> Von: Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@openoffice.org> > An: discuss@documentfoundation.org > > The paperwork was only a practical detail: not relinquising your > > copyright is the most important. > > I haven't seen any new contributor write that they joined because of > (the refusal of) a copyright agreement; while I have seen several new > contributors write that they started contributing because the "Easy > Hacks" were so easy that they didn't require any previous technical > knowledge. If we want an answer on this (would developers not have joined if there was a CA) we would need to ask them. This should indeed be asked at the dev-list. I'd bet, that at least some of them would state that they not would have joined. > > Do you need an example? Think of a "happy ending" where, to the benefit > of users, OOo and all derivatives merge in a common project. There are > many stakeholders (Oracle, IBM, Novell, Red Hat, Redflag, the Document > Foundation...) and they might agree on a new, free, license with some > special provisions due to the long history of OOo. Now, without > copyright assignments/agreements every stakeholder would be able to join > the unified project except the Document Foundation. By choosing against > copyright assignments/agreements you are killing this dream... And I > can't see how the Document Foundation could realistically say it is open > to discuss with companies in this setting. Ok, got your point. But I (personally) see that this is very unlikely to happen. I might be wrong, but everything I heard from the OOo main sponsor so far indicated that they will never ever debate the CA / licensing issue on a common ground. Anyway - it all depends on the question if developers would sign the CA. And we can only ask developers on this. André -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived ***
