-------- Original Message -------- From: Suhail Ansari <iamsuhailans...@gmail.com> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 17:10:48 +0530
> Hi > TheASF has lots of important projects such as Tomcat, Hadoop etc. I > think that TheASF should either work with the document foundation or donate > open office trademarks to the document foundation because you already have > big active communities working in various projects and new projects like > netbeans will be part of TheASF very soon, donating trademark to the > document foundation will allow you to focus on important projects like > netbeans, tomcat etc. > > Suhail Ansari Hi Suhail, Since you are not subscribed to this list you might not be aware that your proposal has been discussed and dismissed a number of times before. The fact is that door is now closed and there is (almost) no possibility of the ASF donating the trademark and/or domain name to The Document Foundation/ LibreOffice. As mentioned by others in this thread, very few (if any) contributors to the Apache OpenOffice project would move their contribution efforts to other ASF projects, so the overall benefit to the ASF would be something approaching zero. While merging the resources of the two projects might seem to be a sensible and productive move, there is a long standing resistance on both sides to such a move. Plus the differences between the licensing philosophies of the two projects will always result in a "/Mexican Standoff/". Dave -- Please address any reply to the mailing list only. Any messages sent to this noreply@ address are automatically deleted from the server and will never be read.
