Hi *, On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Sam Ruby <ru...@apache.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Ian Lynch <ianrly...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I should think there is probably >> broader commercial or legal reason for Oracle to hold on to the copyright >> such as tax relief or just in case it *might* somehow become valuable. > > Oracle offered to transfer the copyright, and I said that it was > neither necessary nor required.
I second that. the TDF would have been more than pleased if Oracle would have re-licensed the code under LGPL+MPL combination (+apache and whatever). Copyright ownership is not required at all. Neither for Apache, nor for TDF. ciao Christian -- 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
