On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Michael Meeks <michael.me...@suse.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > Just digging through the code looking at some (re)-licensing issues we > have to deal with, and I'm wondering about the license of code in Child > Workspaces (branches in Mercurial). > > It would be my hope (and for both project's benefit) that existing > patches (ie. CWS), to the code that Oracle has contributed under the > AL2, would also be available under the AL2. >
I'm glad to hear that you are supportive of the Apache license and see its benefits. > Is that the case ? reading: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/OOOUSERS/summary-of-apache-openoffice-34-ip-review-activities.html > > I see: > > "The ASF received two Software Grant Agreements from Oracle, the > first on June 1st, 2011 and a supplemental one on October 17th, > 2011. Presumably these agreements are available for inspection > by Apache Members." > > "The list of files covered by each of these grants, were > extracted from the SGA and can be found in _these files_" > > Which seems to just have flat lists of files, and I had a couple of > questions: > > 1. Are those SGA's unmodified, and/or does the scope extend > beyond the plain list of files, and just one version of > them ? > > 2. Is the text of these SGA's made public somewhere ? > (prolly a FAQ) I'm confused by this 'Members only' > restriction that is presumed. > The SGA is schedule B of the CCLA. You can read it here: http://www.apache.org/licenses/cla-corporate.txt But something to remember is that an SGA is not the only way code can get under the Apache license. > Anyhow - glad to see Oracle has got close to the end of getting the > code out there: good stuff. It'd be nice to get some clarity around > those CWS' that are not yet merged, eg. Armin's nice work in CWS aw080. > > It'd be really useful to have a statement on that - or perhaps I just > missed an existing one, help appreciated ! > Were there any other specific CWS's that you are interested in, aside from aw080? Regards, -Rob > Thanks, > > Michael. > > -- > michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot >
