On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 13:37, Norbert Thiebaud <nthieb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Christian Grobmeier > <grobme...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> OOO uses (or will use in future) the ASL 2.0 license, >>> OOO is LGPLv3, the AOO fork will be ASL2 >> >> To my knowledge the OOo trademark will be transferred to the ASF (or >> is already?). >> Therefore I would not say this project is a fork of OOo, it is OOo. No? > > "Eric Raymond, in his seminal essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar,[1] > stated in 1997 that "The most important characteristic of a fork is > that it spawns competing projects that cannot later exchange code, > splitting the potential developer community"." > > So, since OOo and LO have compatible license that allow code exchange > and AOO won't, then it seems that that qualify as a 'fork' of OOo.
This is not the correct list to argue semantics. People have various opinions, and ESR is *not* the only reference for what "fork" means. Also, please note it is the "Apache License, v2.0". There is no "S" in the acronym. -g
