The 'problem' is that I've been approached by a number of corp, gov't and non-profits who wish to contribute to LO but want their donations to also be covered under the ALv2.
They have heard back that code under ALv2 will not be accepted by TDF and LO and that patches must be under LGPLv3+MPL to even be considered. They would like to know if submissions under ALv2+LGPLv3 or even ALv2+MPL+LGPLv3 would be acceptable. Thx for any answers that could be provided. On Mar 6, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Florian Effenberger <flo...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > Hello Jim, > > while it is hard to understand the problem, in principle, with using any > combination of licenses in addition to the project's preferred LGPLv3/MPLv2 > dual license, do you have a patch or proposal for a patch submitted to the > dev mailing list that we can look at? > > Best, > Florian > > Jim Jagielski wrote on 2013-03-06 16:05: >> Thanks for the reply, but the policy doesn't answer my specific question. >> >> I have a patch which is written for LibreOffice. However, >> I want to provide that patch to LO under both LGPLv3 AND ALv2. >> Based *solely* on the fact that it is dual-licensed and >> nothing else, is such a patch acceptable. >> >> Dropping OpenOffice since they have already indicated that >> the answer for them is YES. >> >> And this is not a theoretical question. I have been >> approached by people and companies stating that >> they wish to help LO but want to provide their code >> patches also under ALv2 (for internal legal reasons) >> and have been told that TDF and LO refuses to accept such >> code/patches/etc *simply* because it is dual/triple/quadruple >> licensed under the ALv2. >> >> tia. >> >> On Mar 5, 2013, at 3:08 PM, Florian Effenberger >> <flo...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: >> >>> Hello Jim, >>> >>> thank you for your e-mail. You'll find TDF's policy on this subject here: >>> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/License_Policy >>> >>> Best, >>> Florian >>> >>> >>> Jim Jagielski wrote on 2013-03-05 18:32: >>> >> >> > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
