Oracle has rejected the invitation e. .. passed the code to Apache! Something motivated move to Apache and not to TDF.
The invitation for Oracle can be done for the Apache? If yes, could be on the condition of maintaining a software under the GPL? ____________________ Eduardo Alexandre 2011/6/4 Zaphod Feeblejocks <zapho...@gmail.com> > Is it possible to allow Oracle to donate to Apache and then for TDF to go > to > Apache and say "Please let us have that?" > > Oracle are code-dumping because the community left them standing alone. > Oracle are acting as generous benefactors but may end up splitting the OS > community over this one. We do not need two near-identical office suites. > The duplication in effort is not worth it. > > The option of LibO becoming a customised build of Apache OO, where we take > from them and add our own things becomes a maintenance nightmare. LibO 3.4 > already has enough clear differences from OOo 3.4 that make the idea of > moving code modules back and forth difficult. There will be a lot of > re-engineering simply to keep things working and much potential to > introduce > bugs. > > >From a marketing point of view, the appearance of yet another OpenOffice > is > not helpful. We now have OpenOffice.org, Star Office, Oracle Open Office, > BrOffice, Go-oo, Apache OpenOffice, IBM Symphony, NeoOffice, Euro Office > and, of course, LibreOffice. At least when everything else was a build of > OOo with some addons, it could be understood. When TDF was set up, it was > a > case of everything else being a build of LibO with addons, plus > OpenOffice.org - and we hoped either Oracle would code-dump in our > direction, or just go away. > > When TDF was set up, there was an invitation to Oracle to take part. They > declined. This invitation should be passed on to Apache. They don't need > the hassle of maintaining a parallel project - especially one that the > wider > community has dropped. > > ZF > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
