On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Michael Meeks <michael.me...@novell.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 14:27 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: >> > Ultimately with a suite of 8+ million lines, packed with obscure features, >> > and thousands of lines of change a day it is fairly easy to slip things in, >> > to the potential detriment of other users of the code. >> >> Wait. How is an IP remediation of "potential detriment of other users of >> the code"? I can appreciate your concern over potential submarine patents >> -- we do have a clause to address that -- but how is REMOVAL of a problem >> a potential detriment? > > The removal is great, we want to do that too (though as a separation). > The problem is if it is done silently and in a way that is obscured. It > would be easy to hide the "what to remove" making it available only to > those using a verbatim Apache Office. > > This is what I want to avoid; I would like to winkle this information > out, publicly, to ensure that LibreOffice (and others: gnumeric, KOffice > etc.) can take advantage of it. Is that clearer ?
Do you wish to participate? If so, I encourage you to feel free to sign up on the wiki at this time. Scanning the current list it appears likely that we have plenty of volunteers who likely will want to scratch that same itch so signing up may not be necessary. Meanwhile, I encourage you to look at the overall history of the ASF and how we have dealt with patents in the past and not presume that we will suddenly abandon how we approach such matters. > HTH, > > Michael. - Sam Ruby --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
