Hi Davide and Dave; Just to clarify, withdrawing a change is not generally something that is viable. and this doesn’t seem to be the case of someone changing it’s mind about contributing. What appears to have happened is that the author doesn’t own the code he wrote. This is standard industry practice, especially if you got paid to develop the code originally. Reverting the change was absolutely the right thing to do.
FWIW, I have huge experience sharing code under multiple licenses and normally companies will take hints from the original developers and do what’s best for their interests. Sharing code usually makes sense especially when you are already consuming a lot of code from the general pool. In this case, not sharing some bug fixes doesn’t really help either project. It’s a perfectly legal choice but not one that is in any way in the spirit of opensource. IMHO. This type of attitude also backfires, and is the main reason why you didn’t see many contributions from me until just before the AOO release. Pedro. > Il giorno 11/nov/2015, alle ore 23:00, Pedro Giffuni <p...@apache.org> ha > scritto: > > Wow .. this is pathetic … the change was not too important but it is actually > not > the first time it happens. Funny thing is that at ApacheConEU I met some nice > people from this company that wanted to hire OpenOffice developers. > > Some people see AOO as a test to see if permissive licenses are better or > worse than copyleft. The truth is that the practice of draining contributions > from > the competition by whatever means is the type of dirtiness that free software > was meant to fight. Of course the FSF is also against AOO from the start so > we will not get any sympathy there. > > Let me state this openly for those unaware: there are dark powers in play that > want Apache OpenOffice as a project, as a product, and as a community to fail. > It is not a coincidence that a redhat employee was openly asking to kill this > project (for some issue with his mom - really). > > In this case, the contest, if someone still looks at it like that, is not > about who > has a better license/policy or about the capacity of the ASF to nurture and > sustain big projects: this was always about deep pockets wanting to control > a product. Business as usual, so to speak. > > It’s sad in a certain sense, but AOO will keep on as long as it continues > to be useful for people independently of the games other communities > play. > > Pedro. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
