Re: r1712824 withdrawn by committer.

2015-11-12 Thread davide
The question is: can a committer revoke the Apache License from a contribute? I expect yes, but it still can be used, because revocation should apply for the future and not for the past. Davide Il 2015-11-12 05:00 Pedro Giffuni ha scritto: Wow .. this is pathetic … the change was not too

Re: r1712824 withdrawn by committer.

2015-11-12 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi Davide and Dave; Just to clarify, withdrawing a change is not generally something that is viable. and this doesn’t seem to be the case of someone changing it’s mind about contributing. What appears to have happened is that the author doesn’t own the code he wrote. This is standard industry

Re: r1712824 withdrawn by committer.

2015-11-11 Thread Dave Fisher
We can see this a different way. If a developer wants to contribute to Apache OpenOffice then the only clear place is here and under the Apace License. I call that software freedom. Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 11, 2015, at 8:00 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > >

Re: r1712824 withdrawn by committer.

2015-11-11 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Wow .. this is pathetic … the change was not too important but it is actually not the first time it happens. Funny thing is that at ApacheConEU I met some nice people from this company that wanted to hire OpenOffice developers. Some people see AOO as a test to see if permissive licenses are