On Jul 4, 2011, at 3:04 PM, TJ Frazier wrote:

> Hi, Simon,
> 
> On 7/4/2011 17:27, Simon Phipps wrote:
>> 
>> On 4 Jul 2011, at 18:01, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
>> 
>>> If the Oracle grant (a license) applies to the code at a particular 
>>> snapshot in time, then I assume that changes to that code after that might 
>>> not be covered (however covered by the CLA to Oracle/Sun), and certainly 
>>> anything which involves additional files might not be covered.
>> 
>> While Oracle has expressed general goodwill, their grant at present is in 
>> the form of an explicit list enumerating what files are covered. We almost 
>> certainly need to monitor a build of 3.4 to see if that list of files 
>> includes everything necessary. Whatever repo we run that build on:
>>  * will include a mix of licensing until the grant from Oracle is updated,
>>  * is open source so there are no restrictions on our actions
>>  * is not intended for full release so doesn't break any Apache rules
>> As such it doesn't seem to matter much to my naive eyes whether we wait for 
>> the SVN repo to be built, build from the existing Hg repo (assuming we've 
>> sufficient access), or do it somewhere else.
>> 
>> I expect I am wrong though, I'm getting used to that :-)
>> 
>> S.
>> 
> Without being able to view the private agreement, I'd like to mention a 
> couple of off-beat items which I hope are included:
> 
> 1) UNOIDL - that is, the Unified Network Object Interface Description 
> Language compiler, which produces the content of api.oo.o, and the input 
> files.

I hope so that information needs to build into the website. Some configuration 
will be needed.

> 2) The OpenSymbol font. The Math Engine (TeX-like) depends heavily on it, and 
> it may be used elsewhere in OO.o.

There should be license information in the font metadata. What does it say?

Regards,
Dave

> Hope I'm worrying over nothing.
> -- 
> /tj/
> 
> T. J. Frazier
> Melbourne, FL
> 
> (TJFrazier on OO.o)
> 

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