Hi Julien,
Thanks for your mail.
On 5/7/26 23:08, Julien Nabet wrote:
If, again "IF", I don't misunderstand https://forum.collaboraonline.com/
t/tdf-ejects-its-core-developers/4552, specifically:
I believe that's talking about transitioning away from collabora
specific branches in TDF gerrit, I've asked Darshan to clarify that.
+ taking a look at git history on https://gerrit.libreoffice.org
Collabora stopped to contribute to LO some weeks ago.
Going forward you can expect us to contribute at a lower level where it
makes sense; there are a number of areas of shared interest. In recent
weeks we've had our big annual conference which may have slowed things down.
I may be wrong but I expect they'll change their license soon so it
won't be possible to retrieve some interesting patches like leak fixes.
To re-iterate that is not our plan; details here:
https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/what-are-the-consequences-of-the-separation-from-tdf-libreoffice-for-users/4555/5
Let me re-quote that here:
Collabora is an Open Source company and all of our code is 100%
open-source.
Also - we have no plans to change the license. While today TDF is
behaving aggressively, it may be more reasonable in the future - there
is always hope of future collaboration.
It seems there is benefit in keeping the door open for future
reconciliation by continuing to use an compatible license. For now we
will be doing our work, with our own focus in our own gerrit but also
contributing to LibreOffice where it makes sense; it is easy to
over-think the change here.
I also suppose the page people from Collabora on https://
wiki.documentfoundation.org/FindTheExpert can be removed since I expect
(I may be wrong again) there'll be no more response from them.
That may make sense.
Sadly,
Michael.
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