I know we are waiting on Andrea's rewrite, but I would ask why bother to rewrite.
Here are three reasons why the page should be removed from all language versions and not just hidden. (1) How does the PMC even know what this carefully nuanced page even says in another language like Chinese, Arabic, German, Russian, and the rest? (2) These pages cause a fracture in the overall OpenOffice / ODF ecosystem whether or not all of us acknowledge that fact. (3) These pages also damage the reputation of the ASF. The only way to handle our responsibilities as a PMC is to remove these pages in every language. Regards, Dave On Feb 20, 2015, at 12:37 AM, Danese Cooper wrote: > For what it's worth (and I'm sure there are some on this list who believe it > is worth very little), I didn't and don't like the GPL-bashing verbiage, > precisely because it is not consistent with ASF statements and leaves ASF > open to the kind of criticism Bradley Kuhn has leveled. > > The page was originally written and "discussed" at a time when some factions > of the PMC were not really entertaining dissent from an agenda of emphasizing > the differences between AOO and LO/TDF, and I didn't feel it would help for > me to suggest that AOO should concentrate on engineering and if anything > practice generosity towards sister projects (which is closer to the Apache > Way). > > But, since you've called for discussion and vote, I would vote -1 on leaving > the page as-is, and +1 on changing it as JimJag (VP of Legal Affairs) has > asked. > > Danese > > >> On Feb 20, 2015, at 1:28 AM, Rob Weir <r...@robweir.com> wrote: >> >> Thread for discussion >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
