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Posted to general@incubator.apache.org by Keith Curtis <ke...@gmail.com> on 2011/06/06 05:14:56 UTC
From Michael Meeks on Apache License
He wrote this yesterday and it describes in different words why the
Apache license is not so pragmatic for LibreOffice.
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The problem is, that very much of our work is inter-dependent, and we
want people to be able to work all over the code, cleaning, translating
and fixing it. It would suck giant rocks (through a straw) to say:
"no copy-left lovers need think of working on X Y or Z
big pieces of the code - since we want to license
changes to these on to IBM (via Apache)" :-)
At least - I don't want to just push the division down into the
code-base, excluding people from lots of it (and of course throwing away
our changes to those pieces).
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http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/msg06351.html
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Re: From Michael Meeks on Apache License
Posted by Greg Stein <gs...@gmail.com>.
Michael has posted here already, and will do so when he wants to make
a statement. We don't need the reposting.
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 23:14, Keith Curtis <ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> He wrote this yesterday and it describes in different words why the
> Apache license is not so pragmatic for LibreOffice.
> ------------
> The problem is, that very much of our work is inter-dependent, and we
> want people to be able to work all over the code, cleaning, translating
> and fixing it. It would suck giant rocks (through a straw) to say:
>
> "no copy-left lovers need think of working on X Y or Z
> big pieces of the code - since we want to license
> changes to these on to IBM (via Apache)" :-)
>
> At least - I don't want to just push the division down into the
> code-base, excluding people from lots of it (and of course throwing away
> our changes to those pieces).
> ------------
> http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/msg06351.html
>
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