Hi Pier,
yahoo-pier_andreit wrote:
Who is now in charge of the code our volunteers contribute?
If it goes into the OOo cvs system, Oracle. If it goes into the
LibreOffice, Go-OO, OxygenOffice, etc cvs system, the community.
Again I need to correct jonathon. Code committed to OpenOffice.org is
open to be taken and used from all others. go-oo did that in the past
and LibreOffice is doing that again. They take code from OpenOffice.org.
In contrary go-oo and LibreOffice have choosen a license politics that
make it impossible to take their code and integrate it into
OpenOffice.org. So if you contribute code to OpenOffice.org it will went
into most flavors or forks. If you choose to contribute to LibreOffice
in contrary the code will only be there.
Kind regards,
Ingrid
dear Ingrid, wich kinds of license politics libo and go-oo chosen to
make impossible integrate and take their code?
LibreOffice and go-oo have chosen to not have a central license
authority on their contributions. This makes it quite impossible to make
general agreements with other projects. Each single contributor to those
forks needs to decide and effectively do the contribution also to
OpenOffice.org. There can't be setup some kind of semi automatism in
that direction.
Well LibreOffice is still in its creation phase and discussions are
ongoing so there is hope that they might decide on a central license
authority in future in order to be able to organize a cooperation with
OpenOffice.org or other projects. But maybe they are totally happy with
the situation that they can take our code but we can't take theirs, this
might be possible also. We will see.
Kind regards,
Ingrid
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