Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-05 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 01:07, Andrew Rist andrew.r...@oracle.com wrote: Also, besides main apps, is Oracle donating it's Oracle OOo extensions? Such as: PDF Import, Presenter Console, WebLog Publisher, Professional Template

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-04 Thread Sam Ruby
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 23:48, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: The extensive LibreOffice user-documentation project is producing GPL3[+]/CC-by3.0 dual-licensed documents.  I assume that CC-by is not toxic

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-04 Thread robert_weir
Andrew Rist andrew.r...@oracle.com wrote on 06/04/2011 01:07:36 AM: Also, besides main apps, is Oracle donating it's Oracle OOo extensions? Such as: PDF Import, Presenter Console, WebLog Publisher, Professional Template Packs, MySQL Connector, etc. Our approach is to start with the

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-03 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi William, * Original-Nachricht Von: William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net An: general@incubator.apache.org The CC was generated for non-code contributions as far as I know. I would need to have that confirmed. That is my understanding. But if we ask

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-03 Thread Lee Fisher
But this raises another question - does Oracle donate the code only or will ASF also get the contents of the website, wiki, translation database (wich has some more information than what you see in the code), ooo-specific tooling (OOo used to have some web portals to support development, qa,

RE: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-03 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
don't see any notices or license information. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Andre Schnabel [mailto:andre.schna...@gmx.net] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 15:38 To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal] Hi William

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-03 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 23:48, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: The extensive LibreOffice user-documentation project is producing GPL3[+]/CC-by3.0 dual-licensed documents.  I assume that CC-by is not toxic for Apache, since it is the closest CC license to permissive (i.e., it

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-03 Thread Andrew Rist
But this raises another question - does Oracle donate the code only or will ASF also get the contents of the website, wiki, translation database (wich has some more information than what you see in the code), ooo-specific tooling (OOo used to have some web portals to support development, qa,

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-03 Thread Andrew Rist
Also, besides main apps, is Oracle donating it's Oracle OOo extensions? Such as: PDF Import, Presenter Console, WebLog Publisher, Professional Template Packs, MySQL Connector, etc. Our approach is to start with the main open source code - stuff with clear provenance. The OOo extensions are

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-03 Thread Greg Stein
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 01:07, Andrew Rist andrew.r...@oracle.com wrote: Also, besides main apps, is Oracle donating it's Oracle OOo extensions? Such as: PDF Import, Presenter Console, WebLog Publisher, Professional Template Packs, MySQL Connector, etc. Our approach is to start with the main

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 10:37 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:23 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.netwrote: Other Works * You can use the Creative Commons Attribution License (Attribution-NoDerivs 2.5). We only accept work under this license that is

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:19, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: ... I guess I've seen too many failures to launch at incubator to support any more projects coming in which are not in the realistic position to publish working results as AL works.  So without these answers, I

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/2/2011 11:45 AM, Greg Stein wrote: We know the *precise* list of files that we have rights to. They are explicitly specified in the software grant recorded by the Secretary. For all other files not listed: we have no special rights. Those files would be under their original license,