On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 17:28 +0100, Roberto Resoli wrote: > Copyright Assignment is nor bad nor good, it's a compromise
I do not see assignment in -any- way as a compromise; but as an un-necessary extreme. > i am still waiting to see any reply also to Andrea's proposals > in another thread [1] Oh - I guess I should reply there. > I agree with Andrea, and I think that all this JCA stuff need a more > pragmatic approach Honestly; the amount of doom mongering in this thread is staggering. Suddenly we somehow 'discovered' that all FLOSS licenses are un-enforceable, jurisdictionless, that no-one has really contributed anything, in any binding way to any eclectically owned FLOSS project[1], and that only mad people would ship that software :-) If the rational conclusion of these arguments is that the Linux Kernel, Mozilla, SAMBA, GNOME, KDE, and by extension -all- Linux distributions are fundamentally unsafe to ship - then we have a huge and un-fixable problem; but one that is by far beyond the scope of LibreOffice to fix. In particular OpenOffice already has this problem, since it includes big chunks of Mozilla - which has some form of mild certification of authenticity - but this only extends to the person doing the committing, not the code they commit [ from others ] ;-) ie. it is eclectically owned, and there is no paperwork, or click-through before contributing. So at this point, there are two options: * throw up arms in dismay, conclude nothing is 'safe', and wander around desparately trying to aggregate stronger rights to the entire codebase in various organisations [ which IMHO aggregates problems with it ]. Or: * follow the rest of the world including eg. IBM (who are not short of lawyers) who already ship eg. Mozilla, SAMBA and Linux without any of these apparently indispensible assignments ;-) HTH, Michael. [1] - eclectically owned projects are, by far, the vast majority of Free Software projects. -- michael.me...@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- 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 ***