On 6/1/2011 1:16 PM, dsh wrote: > To me the proof point whether this proposal will be successful or not > is whether Linux distributions having already dropped support for > OpenOffice and switched to LibreOffice instead would be willing to > reverse that decision and move back to OpenOffice again now that it is > in a process to be proposed to become an Apache incubator project.
That isn't particularly an issue. As LibreOffice has pointed out, they are free to adopt improvements to any Apache Licensed OO. The net result is all of the best of both code bases. Similar successful projects exist. What is a more serious question, how many bug fixes would go into LibreOffice without being offered to the ASF under the AL? LO has no copyright assignment, so the principals of LO don't have the flexibility to offer these to the ASF, it is contributor-by-contributor. Each fix would be independently authored, and ultimately the two code bases end up too disjoint to maintain with one another. I am further interested to know which LibreOffice contributors see the benefit of having the base, or at least some of the components, under the more permissive ALv2 in order to propagate the standards desired by LibreOffice. Software at the ASF has enjoyed very broad adoption in large part because it promotes the widest possible consumption. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
