On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Charles-H. Schulz <charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > > I am certainly not going to enter a debate on licensing, and I think nobody > wants that here. But I just think that there are other ways to cooperate > than pretending the elephant in the room (LibreOffice, the Document > Foundation) does not exist or does not de facto embody the largest part of > the OpenOffice community (yes, I know, there are a few exceptions).
Licensing is one of the key reason why many projects find their way to the ASF. Any discussion that misses out on that is missing a key part of the equation. As to the alleged elephant in the room; I don't see anyone at the ASF who is pretending that LibreOffice does not exist or the the Document Foundation does not exist. Remember: nearly everybody at the ASF heard about this awesome donation at roughly the same time you did. As one who was involved in the legal aspects, I perhaps heard about it a short while before you did, but not by much. And there wasn't much I could talk about yet as it hadn't happened yet. Now that it has happened, people have reached out, are reaching out, and will continue to do so. Meanwhile, I will confirm that we have a Software Grant from Oracle, and it is the same Software Grant that everybody else signs: http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt Within the limits of what that grant allows us to do, and the founding principles of the ASF, I welcome cooperation with every entity and organization that wishes to. - Sam Ruby --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
