--- On Sun, 11/6/11, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@openoffice.org> wrote: ... > On 06/11/2011 Pedro Giffuni wrote: > > My question here is, why are you > > using a software license if you don't think most of > it's > > provisions apply. Shouldn't you use Creative Commons > > license, or the GNU FDL instead? > > This is an interesting question, but the Italian dictionary > started with the same license as OpenOffice.org and has had > a complex story, with license changes (not actual > relicensing, but "license upgrades" as allowed by the > [L]GPL) and several copyright holders. Since we know that we > have zero chances to get all copyright holders to agree to > relicensing, we will have to explore other possible > alternatives. > Hmm.. understandable.
Actually we are in a similar situation with Apache OOo: We will probably get some non-code in the SGA that we can't relicense under PD, BSD or MIT. Fortunately most people find the restrictions in the AL2 sufficiently unrestricted ;). > Thanks Dave, Dennis and Rob for your suggestions: I will > have to coordinate with Gianluca to address Apache Legal in > a proper way, but I expect that we will raise the issue > there in a reasonable timeframe. > Yes, good luck with legal! Pedro.
