Hello Simon,
This is a noble proposal, but there are is an important prerequisite. The
LibreOffice is currently only accepting contributions licensed under the
LGPL. The LibreOffice project cannot take those contributions and insert
them into an Apache Licensed project without the approval of
(3) There is even talk as to why? I'm also curious as to why they would
need or want to transfer the project to Apache.
Only the person who made that decision knows the answer, and if you ask
them, you might get an answer, and it might even be the real answer. But
you never know.
I will
When this question comes up I've been asking the commenter to give a
reasoned estimate for how
many volunteers will be needed. I'm generally seeing that 20 core
developers are needed for project
maintenance. Some suggest more is needed for incubation, but I think this
might be a shifting
- What is wrong about the TDF that is better at ASF, for being the home of
a free office suite?
It is not clear to what extent the choice of the ASF was driven by Oracle,
and you probably won't get either Oracle or IBM to talk about that.
However, to the extent that it was driven by Oracle, that
Which is why I raised the question regarding TDF's ability to
relicense all of the contributions it has received.
As I understand it Noel, TDF accepts contributions under open source
licenses alone and unlike ASF does not require a contributor license
agreement, so is unable to relicense
Are you ready to call for a vote? :)
I think you need to allow a little time for people to read what has been
written, absorb and reflect on it, and react appropriately. And I'm not
(just) talking about ASF members--I'm talking about the potentially larger
community. Rushing things will not
I suggest you stick to the content of the e-mails on the list, Jim.
Yes, I am concerned about how this all came about, but the reason I am
here on the list is to be constructive and not to be bitch-slapped and
misrepresented just for showing up.
This email has no place on this list. Take
If this is how guests are going to be treated here at ASF, then yes,
we'll take it elsewhere and IBM can go it alone.
OK... I offer my apologies... I agree that this has gotten quite heated
and gone w offbase.
I admit my culpability in my actions which have allowed it and apologize.
As a Incubator PMC member, I'd like to hear what the TDF folks think about
this suggested path.
In the end the people who do the day-to-day work will end up collaborating
or not...But, here's
my +1 that implies that i'd like folks who are signing on to this podling
do their best to make this
However, I do not believe the ASF is likely to provide a good home
for the OO.o project in the long run, Meeks said.
When I read that, I also did not see anything offensive. I believe when
Michael said that he was thinking of OOo as he knows it, which is a desktop
application. The ASF has no
Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wote:
Seems that some people are not happy with my outreach to the communties,
or whatever...
There are plenty of suggestions and posts on things that I have done
wrong, or did not do,
or did not due to someone's satisfaction.
If people want, I will happily
Noel,
I think your labels Conclusion and Supporting statements are incorrect,
and that might explain why you fail to see how you draw the conclusion from
the supporting arguments. The paragraph in question may contain more than
one conclusion, and it may contain one or more opinions which the
Sam wrote:
Before proceeding, I would like to seek advice from our counsel. I also
want to proceed based
on specific patent infringement concerns and not on abstract
hypotheticals. However, I don't
want to spend valuable time on this until we decide whether or not to
accept this project for
Greetings khirano,
Can you tell me what podling is?
podling is a made up (meaning invented) word that the ASF uses to refer to
a project in the incubation stage. The word podling is formed by the root
word pod (which should be in your dictionary) and the suffix -ling which
means small (that
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