On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 12:43:50PM +0100, Simon Phipps wrote:
> 
> On 4 Jun 2011, at 12:19, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> > LibreOffice complements anything we do here at Apache to those who
> > agree with the license terms under which LibreOffice is made
> > available.  Until or unless we resolve that issue, I feel that the
> > statement above would need to be both qualified in this manner and
> > extended to enumerate other complements that might apply in other
> > situations.
> 
> I disagree. LO has a focus on the binary deliverables and the consumer 
> destinations they reach that is perfectly complementary to the developer 
> focus of Apache. This complementarity is entirely unrelated to licensing.
> 

Agreed, but that assumes that LO is "just" a build/deliverables/consumer
focused entity, and doesn't have a developer interest as well. As long
as they still do, then licensing is important.
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