In support of Sam's point here, I add that OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice.org already provide the required ALv2 notices in their listings of third-party dependencies. The list is installed as part of every install of one of the distributions. I even included a copy of one of the latest LibreOffice ones in an earlier post. So folks curious about this should satisfy themselves that the LibreOffice office team already knows how to handle this.
- Dennis -----Original Message----- From: sa3r...@gmail.com [mailto:sa3r...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Sam Ruby <http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201106.mbox/%3cbanlktinrzfojmgsjh9b9epm6ad568ma...@mail.gmail.com%3e> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 17:47 To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice & LibreOffice On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: <http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201106.mbox/%3cBANLkTik1Gbt5GER3==SJK=1cvspp5za...@mail.gmail.com%3e> [ ... ] > > You cannot simply strip the Apache License off of the code. You must > respect its terms. > > Your overall work could be GPL'd, but that one file that comes with an > ALv2 license must continue to have that license. Stripping the header > off of it, and applying a different license, is a copyright violation. An example of how another project has dealt with this: http://wikis.sun.com/display/GlassFish/Copyrights > -g - Sam Ruby --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
