Hi,
Le 19 févr. 11 à 14:02, Tor Lillqvist a écrit :
"EducOOo donated code for ARM Linux port" makes it sound you did
the port.
Me, I didn't understand if EducOOo is the subject or object here...
(And with issuezilla being down, I couldn't check the link either.)
Was it donated to EducOOo, or did EducOOo donate it to somebody else?
I do represent EducOOo non profit association, who aims to contribute
back to OpenOffice.org. And we'll continue until there is a good
reason to stop.
A copy of the full patch I donated is available at : http://
eric.bachard.free.fr/patches/OOo4Kids/linux_arm/arm_DEV300_m93.diff
Inside this patch, there is something important (and helpfull),
written in ARM assembler. As discussed with Rene on IRC, define the
arm target is matter of taste, and I don't care if this code is not
fully used / ported into OpenOffice.org or elsewhere, the most
important being the interlck.c part, and the fact people explain do
not forget to mention I'm the author of the interesting part.
And what does "donate" mean, exactly, in the context of Open Source
software? Or is this not Open Source?
Oracle - Sun developpers cannot directly reuse even one line of code
from EducOOo repository (OOo4Kids and OOoLight), "as it". Mainly
because out of the famous "Oracle Copyright Assignment".
To solve this legal issue, I wrote on IssueZilla, that the code is
donated to OpenOffice.org, under a compatible license (LGPL v3 for
instance). Last, I attached a patch I wrote onto OpenOffice.org IZ.
When I got a complicated questions, Sun-Oracle engineers always
answer, and help me. And I appreciate that.
In one word: yes, this is open source, and free software.
Regards,
Eric Bachard
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Education Project:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project
Projet OOo4Kids : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Main_Page
L'association EducOOo : http://www.educoo.org
Blog : http://eric.bachard.org/news
