On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin < robertburrelldon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Andreas Kuckartz <a.kucka...@ping.de> > wrote: > > Am 02.06.2011 18:09, schrieb Jukka Zitting: > >> I wouldn't be too quick to throw away this opportunity to reunite the > > related communities. > >> > >> If the differences truly are insurmountable, I'd like to see that > >> explained in the proposal before we vote on it. > > > > +1 (not binding) > > The ASF uses the Apache License. Some people will only contribute to > projects under a copyleft license. Arguments about these lines have - > historically - produce a lot of flames but little useful illumination. > (So I'd like to avoid another round ;-) > > What might be reasonably hoped for is that the ASF could act as an > upstream for GPLv3 office product(s) with a reunited community > spanning these projects (as widely as ideologically possible). I would > definitely like to see the proposal explain whether this would be > possible and practical. > More than that, I'd like to see it as an objective to facilitate this collaboration. There's too much talk of just giving up and treating ideological division as a given... S.
