On Wed, April 8, 2009 10:11, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > > Le Tue, 7 Apr 2009 19:16:22 +0200, > Pablo Barrera <[email protected]> a écrit : > >> Hi all >> >> > >> > Alexandro, although we even do not know wether this buyout will >> > actually occur (these days it seems the whole story has gotten cold >> > again) the very first three questions we would have to ask ourselves >> > and Sun/IBM/others would not be about a foundation. It would be >> > about the following: >> > - who owns the code >> >> >> bad question: the code is from the cumminity... > > > I am afraid you are mislead. Sun owns the code of OpenOffice.org. Just > browse our website.
"Sun can never take away the code and the community's contributions to it. This code belongs to the community as guaranteed by the LGPL." http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-licensing.html#10 Sun is a joint copyright owner with the hacker. This meakes it easier for Sun to 'do things' unilaterally - e.g. re-license the code - but it doesn't prevent the creation of new software based on the current codebase. Sun also owns the trademark 'OpenOffice.org' and has been busy recently strengthening the trademark protection. So you might have to re-brand any new software based on the current codebase. John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
