André Schnabel wrote:
Hi,
Louis Suarez-Potts schrieb:
Late last year, there was a discussion about the implications of the
ratification of GPLv3 or LGPLv3 for OpenOffice.org among the
OpenOffice.org project leads. The leads were generally in favour of
adopting the updated licenses. The outcome of this and other
discussions is that Sun is changing the license for the OpenOffice.org
codebase to the more flexible and protective LGPL v3 [0], effective
with the beta of OpenOffice.org 3.0 which is due later this year. This
change is supported by the OpenOffice.org Community Council.
One legal question to the OOo addendum in the SCA.
This addendum is (imo) very vague. It names that "source code extension
to the OpenOffice.org project (or OpenOffice.org related documentation)"
are covered by the addendum, but this does not really help with some
things that I am currently working on. Eg. what is about a collection of
templates or clipats (this is defnately no source code esxtension). Are
these covered by the SCA now (or in other words do I need to ask people
contributing templates to sign the SCA first ?)
Another question - what about translation work? There was no clear
answer until now and the new SCA does not give an answer. Do we need to
sign the SCA for translation? (Means does everybody contributing to
help/ui transaltion need to sign the SCA?)
My notes from the audio (see below) state that anything which is shipped
in the Community installation sets needs to be under the SCA and the
LGPL. If it's delivered via another mechanism (e.g. the extensions
repository) then it doesn't need the SCA - in fact it doesn't even need
to be LGPL for the repository.
Another question, concerning the Councils role in this case: if the
change is supported by the Council, I'd expect there was a consensus
vote. But why did the Council vote without a public notice what is going
on? Following the Council Charta, a vote should be calle at least five
days in advance - to allow the larger community the cance to comment.
There may be a rush vote, but I see no reason for a rush vote in this
case (the Council did not really vote on using SCA or not - the Council
only "supports" this decision).
Council members were invited by Louis to attend a "special conference
call". Michael Bemmer told the attendees that Sun was planning to move
to the new LGPL and the SCA. After a discussion he asked if everyone was
OK with the proposal. Stefan followed this up with an email to see if
everyone was happy with the phrase "this move is supported by the
OpenOffice.org Community Council".
As mentioned by Jan Holesovsky on the project leads list it would have
been fair to give existing contributors the chance to comment.
One of the points made on the audio was that this had been discussed
extensively on project_leads last year (Charles' famous 'Stone in the
lake' thread).
John
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