Michael is repeating some invariants that he and other LO/TDF people have stated, politely and consistently, since the inception of this discussion. They are committed to copyleft, they see dependencies with copyleft, their vision of OO is copyleft. There's perfect symmetry here: we're making public statements (well, general@incubator) to the effect that everything would be unicorns and rainbows if only they'd give up on copyleft and adopt the AL, and they're stating the perfect converse. We support our argument, they support theirs.
This is going to be a battle for the hearts and minds of the developers (or, in some cases, their employers). It can't be negotiated out of existence. Even of the likes of Michael and Florian *wanted* to negotiate it out of existence, they can't speak for all the contributors. They aren't even legally an entity, after all. It can be a polite battle, or an ugly one, but it can't, in my opinion, be defined out of existence. If/when we launch the podling, we'll be starting an experiment. At the end of that experiment, one, two, or zero open office projects will have a critical mass of developers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
