--- Lun 16/1/12, Joe Schaefer ha scritto: ... > Kinda hard to claim you own all the > rights to > > a patch when in 99% of the situations it's merely > a derivative work of the thing you produced the > patch from. >
FWIW .. I have asked for two set of patches from LibreOffice authors and my request on both cases was rejected: 1. Patches to build with clang. 2. Patches to replace uses of STLport with boost. I personally think neither of those changes are copyrightable as the changes are pretty easy to reproduce without looking at them. For the rest I don't find the LO changes too interesting at all. I do see some of our changes would be interesting to them but I don't think they have sufficient developers to keep up with our changes anyways. Despite of this, the core of both is still the SUN/oracle code and the code is not hugely different yet, perhaps (and it's just my speculation) 5-6 years of constant development will still be needed for LO to gain it's own identity at a source level and even then the origin will still be traceable. Pedro.
