On 06/07/2011 05:26 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 21:05, NoOp <gl...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> On 06/04/2011 05:10 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> ... >>> Whether OOo lives or dies in Apache, Oracle has made it abundantly >>> clear that this is it... This is one promise I fully expect Oracle >>> will keep :/ >> >> Interesting... >> >> Could you clarify that statement? >> >> 1. @ASF: What happens to OOo if ASF votes *not* to accept the OOo >> project into the incubator? And it that is the case, what happens to the >> OOo software that has been granted to the ASF by Oracle? > > We already have a recorded software grant from Oracle. So in that > sense, we can release that code under the ALv2 right now. Normally, > Apache will only make releases after appropriate review and testing. > But if a project doesn't even get started, then there is nobody to > perform that process, so podlings that do not start or do not graduate > never get a chance to release the code. > > In this case, it is quite extra-ordinary. As a Director of the > Foundation, I would lobby my fellow Board members to construct a > tarball of the granted source files and drop that onto one of our > servers. "Take it as-is. No warranty implied" and all that. I am > pretty confident that the Board would agree to such an action. > >> 2. @TDF: More importantly (from my POV) - what, if any, affect will this >> have on TDF/LO if OOo 'dies in Apache'? > > I suspect TDF will simply continue as before. They could "rebase" > their files from the ALv2-licensed files, providing a much greater > flexibility in the licensing of their overall work. > >> Apologies if this may have already been asked & answered. If so, can >> someone point me to the appropriate messges within the hundreds of posts >> & many, many threads on the ASF incubator list, or on this list? > > Not a problem. There is a ton of email, and maybe not enough hours in > the day to deal with it :-) I saw your later query to Jim, asking for > a response. He hasn't responded because he is away at a conference for > a few days. > > Cheers, > -g >
Thanks Greg. Appreciate the response. Gary Lee -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
