Just my $0.02, Actually the page makes sense. What is happening is that a group of "free software" advocates see the advantages of permissive licenses, and particularly the success of the ASF, as a threat to their business.
Bradly Kuhn in particular has always been aggressive towards OpenOfficeas an Apache Project[1] and seems to want to take it against the ASF[2] lately. I actually don't care about the discussion: I think both permissive and copyleft licenses have their advantages and disadvantages for certain groups. IANAL and I am in the group that doesn't read licenses anyways :). I honestly don't think having a "compliance costs" page will make a difference but if it saves some (few) people from learning such things through a legal process, I guess that can't do any harm. Regards, Pedro. [1] http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/06/01/open-office.html [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ItFjEG3LaA --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
