On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org>wrote:
> Simon Phipps wrote: > >> For the legacy Mercurial repository Andrea mentioned to be useful to >> future >> developers I would expect the copyright status of the repo to thus need >> clarifying, and I don't recall seeing a definitive statement. >> > > Actually what I wrote at the beginning of this thread, months ago, was "it > is still useful since it contains important historical information": for > example, a bug might be marked as fixed in a certain CWS and I'd like to > take a look at this CWS and see whether it was integrated or not. > Right, I understood that, thanks - I was just checking I had not missed a resolution of the other related issue! Accurately remembering our history is an essential element of our future. > So this thread is (was) mainly about preserving the code. The possibility > to include it in an OpenOffice release will likely still require to be > checked on a case-by-case basis, and was not the purpose of this thread. > Right, understood, thanks. Your view seems to match mine even if others would prefer not to discuss it! S.
