On 09.09.2014 15:10, Markus Wernig wrote: > Hi all > > Obviously there are some features in AOO that do not exist in LO and > vice versa. > > I was wondering what the current possibilities are to get certain > features from LO integrated into AOO. > > Background: I am currently trying to get some devs together to fix a > feature (creating digitally signed PDFs) that exists under the > "experimental" features of LO (and does not work at the moment). If that > should succeed, I would like to see that feature also in AOO. > > Would this be possible at all? Or would we need to rewrite the entire > code and practically reimplement it in AOO? > Just how would we go about it once it is fixed in LO? >
That's a problem of licenses. The Apache License has no so called copyleft, so LibreOffice can use our code. But LibreOffice uses licences with a (weak) copyleft, so we can't use their code, if the developer doesn't use also the Apache License (v 2.0) for his or hers code. So: if you want to share your code with Apache OpenOffice, use the Apache License version 2.0. But there midht be strong problems, if your patch is a derivative work from code which is under copyleft licenses only. Regards Michael
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