The question is: can a committer revoke the Apache License from a
contribute?
I expect yes, but it still can be used, because revocation should apply
for the future and not for the past.
Davide
Il 2015-11-12 05:00 Pedro Giffuni ha scritto:
Wow .. this is pathetic … the change was not too important but it is
actually not
the first time it happens. Funny thing is that at ApacheConEU I met
some nice
people from this company that wanted to hire OpenOffice developers.
Some people see AOO as a test to see if permissive licenses are better
or
worse than copyleft. The truth is that the practice of draining
contributions from
the competition by whatever means is the type of dirtiness that free
software
was meant to fight. Of course the FSF is also against AOO from the
start so
we will not get any sympathy there.
Let me state this openly for those unaware: there are dark powers in
play that
want Apache OpenOffice as a project, as a product, and as a community
to fail.
It is not a coincidence that a redhat employee was openly asking to
kill this
project (for some issue with his mom - really).
In this case, the contest, if someone still looks at it like that, is
not about who
has a better license/policy or about the capacity of the ASF to nurture
and
sustain big projects: this was always about deep pockets wanting to
control
a product. Business as usual, so to speak.
It’s sad in a certain sense, but AOO will keep on as long as it
continues
to be useful for people independently of the games other communities
play.
Pedro.
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