Earlier in 2011, Oracle announced the intention to transfer OpenOffice.org to a community-based development project.
On the first of June, 2011, Oracle licensed the code base to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), for development under the Apache License. The trademarks and logos are also transferred to ASF, along with the *.openoffice.org domain names. The ASF approach is to create an incubator for transition. Once the project is transitioned, operating fully under Apache principles, and standing on its own feet, graduation from incubation to being a full-fledged Apache Top-Level Project (TLP) can occur. That is expected sometime in 2012. The Apache OpenOffice incubator "podling" has been working on an extensive number of transition issues, including developing an Apache License version of the code base and picking up on the OOo 3.4.0 beta that was the last Oracle development. There are an amazing number of transition activities, extending to the Bugzilla issue reporting system, MediaWiki, the Community Forums, the web sites, the mailing lists and e-mail/ID system. The active progress and development is discussed and reported on the <ooo-...@incubator.apache.org>. It is a high-traffic list. There is also information, not always current, on the Apache OpenOffice Community Wiki at <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/>. There are occasional pieces on a project blog <http://blogs.apache.org/OOo/>. It is all work-in-progress. There are many developers who had participated previously, and new ones as well. It is all now under open-source development and governance via the ASF meritocracy approach. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Tony Smith [mailto:tony_sm...@blueyonder.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 23:40 To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Re: Will OOo be killed? [ ... ] It would be nice if the 2 camps could play nicely, although whilst Oracle retain the ownership of the OOo trademark etc, I doubt this will happen. It's a shame to see such a good project as this go the way it has, just because of the politics involved, however, as Libreoffice has risen from those ashes better and stronger, perhaps it will turn out to be a blessing in disguise. Cheers Tony [ ... ] -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
