I am not going to get into a debate about what is bad, good, and better with regard to different open-source licenses.
It is my desire to give the recipients of my code all of the rights that I have, and have them know that they have those rights, subject to the requirement for attribution. That's my sense of community. I am a Creative Commons Attribution kind of guy. I am the same way with my code (BSD generally but the Apache 2.0 CLA is all right with me). It's my lawful right, and I am happy with it. I'm also satisfied that both modified BSD and Apache 2.0 are considered GPL-compatible by the FSF. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Norbert Thiebaud [mailto:nthieb...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 17:05 To: dennis.hamil...@acm.org Cc: libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: [Libreoffice] FYI: Latest Oracle move wrt to OpenOffice.org On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote: > I also notice that the Apache CLA is not a copyright assignment, it is > simply a non-exclusive license with the usual attestation that I have > the right to grant the license and it is my original work. (Patch > contributions apparently don't even require a CLA, but committers do.) > One could make the same contribution to both an Apache project and > LibreOffice, although it takes more work. For individual contributors such > as myself: > <http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt> > > > > So, in that regard, it is not like the transfer that I understand > Sun/Oracle required for contributions to OO.o. That is incorrect. the Sun/Oracle Ccontributor Agreement stipulate a 'join' ownership. http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/oca.pdf It is essentially the same thing, except that in turn Apache grant license to everybody to do what-ever they want with the code (i.e not copy-left) whereas Sun/Oracle where doing that only to a select few of their choosing. So, from a Third-Party Closed License perspective Apache License is 'better'... but from a 'community' point of view it is just as bad. Norbert _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
