On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Richard S. Hall <he...@ungoverned.org> wrote: > On 6/5/11 16:50, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Niall Pemberton >> <niall.pember...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> IMO the only negative thing then about LibreOffice is the copyleft >>> license - everything else about them is great. When deciding whether >>> to accept OO we should consider whether that and facilitating BigCos >>> interests is worth splitting the FOSS community. >>> >>> I am considering voting -1 to this proposal for those reasons. >> >> Thanks for expressing my feelings so well, Niall! > > I'll lend a voice to the contrary. > > I can't see why splitting a community should be a factor in entry to the > incubator. Just about every new open source community is trying to pull away > developers from another community doing similar stuff. That's the nature of > the beast.
True, but when its essentially the same software, rather than different software solving the same problem? If I proposed a new project that was a fork of the HTTP project, how would that go down? > For me, getting the OOo code fully available under AL is reason enough to +1 > it as far as I'm concerned...if I were on the IPMC... :-) License is important, but thats not all the ASF is about. Community is important too. I respect you're right to vote however you wish but if all its down to is license then I'm not sure. Niall > -> richard --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
