On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Pedro Giffuni <[email protected]> wrote: > I am pretty sure we are safe.
good, I have no stake in the old bugzilla content... so as long as you are confident that all such stake-holder share Rob's interpretation of what 'accepted, for incorporation' means (i.e that mere posting on a ML or attachment to a bug repport means 'accepted, for incorporation'... (I wonder why we bother with code review then, if any patch submitted is deemed 'accepted, for incorporation').... > - it is my understanding that Oracle will also be making > legal provisions about the bugzilla database. They provided > the dump, its not like we stole anything. I haven't seen the secret SGA... but I don't recall mention by Oracle's representative of a blanket re-licensing of the bugzilla databse under AL2... or for that matter about anything but a list of file based on a specific snapshot of the source tree. >> > The problem is not really integrating the codebases >> but the >> > fact that the ownership of LO is so disperse and that >> TDF >> > is incapable of taking any relicensing decision. >> >> This is not a problem, this is a feature. > > It is a limitation. Only the copyright owner can make > effective license claims so if the time comes to > enforce the LGPL you will find the surprise of owning > less than 10% the code doesn't help much. That is much more than 0% which is what both SUN/Oracle CLA and AL2 effectively offer. It is interesting though that you think that one need to 'own' more than 800K lines of LO code before having standing. Oh, and you are overlooking one option: it is quite possible to designate an entity as your agent in these matter. so a bunch 'small' copyright owner could mandate TDF, for example, to represent them. > > Well I use FreeBSD and I am very glad to have helped Apple > overthrow Microsoft. We are not quite there yet... but in anycase this is 'meet the new boss, same as the old boss'. > out there underestimate the resources SUN/Oracle put > into OpenOffice. Ask Rob how much IBM bill internally for translation on a per-word basis. Then calculate the investment for OpenOffice for 100+ languages... and you'll get an idea why Rob is so interested in Pootle. It seems that IBM, contrary to you, is very aware of the resource invested by the community. Norbert
