I have no reason to believe that the remediation Rob speaks of has anything to do with any part of OpenOffice.org. I would presume it matters with regard to the IP of IBM or others licensed by IBM that may apply to Symphony content beyond whatever OpenOffice.org code they started with.
With regard to OASIS Standard ODF, of course, there is already the IP regime that applies to IBM as a contributor, just as for Sun Microsystems and Oracle. There is also the Oracle SGA. So, do you have knowledge of a specific IP conflict that Apache OpenOffice.org is subject to that is somehow not applicable to LibreOffice and its inheritance from OpenOffice.org ? - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Norbert Thiebaud [mailto:nthieb...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 22:31 To: general@incubator.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Apache OpenOffice 3.4 (incubating) RC1 On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote: > @Norbert, > > I don't see any mention of patent issues in that message. it says: "But one thing not to lose track of is that Symphony has done IP remediation at many levels. Where we've worked around things, we'll be able to contribute our fixes back. [..](I'm talking patents) Symphony is based on OOo so 'remediation' would have to be 'remediation' to the OOo code base, which is the code base of AOO. So presumably the Allege Patent issues where in OOo and possibly are still in AOO... furthermore they could not have been Sun/Oracle Patent, otherwise they would have been covered by LGPLv3, so the Oracle SGA does not help there... > > If you know of a specific IP difficulty, I am sure that the AOO PPMC and the > IPMC would appreciate having sufficient details to be able to confirm the > consequences. I am not the one that claimed that there was such IP difficulty, I'm just reminding everyone that Rob claimed at the beginning of the project that such difficulties and I quote: " I know with certainty that we've fixed things." At the time these issue have been pushed aside as irrelevant to the admission of the project in the incubator, and that such concerned would be addressed in due time prior to Release... > > What do you have in mind? Since I have not seen any discussion or patch related to that topic, I must have missed them. Hence my inquiry. Norbert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
