On Jan 22, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Pedro Giffuni wrote: >> It would be good to tun a RAT scan over the website. We have not done >> anything to clean the content licensewise and we probably carry >> copyleft content, including code, there! > > The website contains gigabytes of materials for which we are probably unable > to trace detailed history and licensing, since they come from multiple CVS > repositories, then lost and migrated to multiple SVN repositories, then lost > and migrated to the current tree. > > So a RAT scan wouldn't probably yield anything actionable. > > The only thing we know for sure is that all those materials were contributed > to be put on the openoffice.org website and that we are continuing to keep > them online. Even if there is copyleft content or code I believe it will be > fine so long as we don't put it in a release (and it won't happen that some > site contents go into a release without a thorough check).
Very well written. This is my understanding as well. It is an opposite problem from the IBM Symphony SGA where we know these will be fine but we just haven't done the relicensing and copyright adjustment to the files as of yet. Regards, Dave > > Regards, > Andrea.
