He wrote this yesterday and it describes in different words why the Apache license is not so pragmatic for LibreOffice. ------------ The problem is, that very much of our work is inter-dependent, and we want people to be able to work all over the code, cleaning, translating and fixing it. It would suck giant rocks (through a straw) to say:
"no copy-left lovers need think of working on X Y or Z big pieces of the code - since we want to license changes to these on to IBM (via Apache)" :-) At least - I don't want to just push the division down into the code-base, excluding people from lots of it (and of course throwing away our changes to those pieces). ------------ http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/msg06351.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
