Hi Berhard, all.
Bernhard Dippold wrote:
Hi Simon, all,
Please make sure that Apache Software Foundation gets notice about the
large area of non-coding community in our projects.
As far as I know, their meritocratic system is only based on code
contribution, so none of the other community members will be able to
become part of the OpenOffice Apache project or the Apache community, if
they don't change the way they handle contributions.
So if you start to be involved in their decision making process, please
describe them the broadness of our community.
Start here.. http://community.apache.org/contributors/index.html ..
Like OOo there is no need to worry anyone can be a contributor.
While Rob Weir (IBM) seems to have an interest in dividing the community
in a Apache based coding community and a different supporting one
(outside Apache, no mention about their infrastructure), I don't think
that this should be the way to go.
The question of giving up LGPL for the Apache license might be a
marketing topic too:
As this would allow companies to just take the code and include their
patches in their own commercial product only, support of the common code
basis might be reduced in future.
I see no change as this is seems to be the way it has worked under
Sun/Oracle. By special agreement IBM has not returned code to OOo upstream.
... Especially as open source enthusiastic developers (mostly
independent or related to Linux distributions) have told us over and
over again that they feel exploited by such commercial interests without
getting something back...
Best regards
Bernhard
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