On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 19:06, Steve Loughran <ste...@apache.org> wrote: > On 01/06/2011 17:33, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: >... >> have the exactly numbers, but there are significant users of the following >> OpenOffice derivatives: >> >> - LibreOffice >> - IBM Lotus Symphony >> - EuroOffice >> - BrOffice (which some would say is a derivative of LibreOffice) >> - RedOffice >> >> In all cases there are several overlapping communities: >> >> - a community of developers >> - a community of users >> - a community of supporters, trainers, consultants, etc. >> >> We'll need to work out how these related, and especially which of these >> community functions are a good fit for an eventual Apache TLP, and which >> things fit better outside of Apache. But my recommendation is that we >> encourage the core development of the editors to occur in Apache, while >> making it easy, via a modular extension mechanism, a modular install, etc. >> for others to customize and redistribute as permitted by the Apache 2.0 >> license. > > OK, but what about the TDF people. Where do they appear here? Is this
Right at the top of Rob's list: "LibreOffice". > another donation of a dead brand after the OSS people forked off the project > and kept it going? Like the donation of Hudson to Eclipse after the Jenkins > fork? It isn't "dead" if there is a community to pick it up. Oracle seemingly doesn't want it, but I'll bet there are plenty of others who *do*. > > I don't trust oracle since the Harmony mess. If they did support the Apache Doesn't matter whether we trust Oracle or not. We have a signed software grant. Strictly speaking, we don't need them, and they can't do anything to us. Cheers, -g --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
