Hi Gavin,
Op 11-6-2011 10:59, Gavin McDonald schreef:
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From: Volker Merschmann [mailto:merschm...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, 11 June 2011 6:49 PM
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation
Hi,
I am wearing my OOo-hat here, and this is my vote:
[ ] +1 Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation [ ] +0 Indifferent to
OpenOffice.org incubation [X ] -1 Reject OpenOffice.org for incubation
I have contributed to OpenOffice.org for several years and I doubt that
the
project will find the needed resources at Apache.
Hi Volker,
Please tell us what sort of 'resources' are you talking about, examples
please, are
these infrastructure resources? If so, as an infra person here at the ASF I
would
like some insight into what people think we don’t have or cannot handle.
I'm not answering for Volker, but personally I see a big problem in the
fact that the installation packages of OpenOffice.org as we know it
today contain numerous external (mostly LGPL) libraries and binaries
that are not ASL licensed and not covered under the Oracle grant.
As I understand, it is strict ASF policy not to distribute binaries
containing non-ASL source, and it will be far from trivial to replace
those dependencies. Therefore I expect that, even if OpenOffice.org can
be built and distributed under these restrictions, it will be severely
crippled for a long time to come. I foresee that many (prospective)
OpenOffice.org-users will lose interest and that we won't be able to
regain the momentum.
--
Vriendelijke groet,
Simon Brouwer.
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