Hi Keith, If documentation is being moved to Gitbox/GitHub then we should use a new repository. OpenOffice-Docs or something else?
Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 10, 2021, at 2:12 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > > Keith N. McKenna wrote: >>>> https://www.apache.org/foundation/license-faq.html#GPL >> I was a bit confused myself when I first read it, but why post it on an >> ASF FAQ site if it doesn't grant reciprocity? > > Because, if I recall correctly, back at the time the two Foundations worked > together in order to achieve compatibility (which of course can only go one > way: the GPL puts more restrictions, so it's impossible to use GPL code in > Apache releases). > > And by the way, the entire GPL discussion is useless since the wiki contents > will never go in a release anyway, as Dave pointed out. So people touting the > "compatibility" are misunderstanding or trolling. > > Fact is, unless one has something personal against other open-source > licenses, people can perfectly work on documentation that is not under ALv2 > (or that is under ALv2 only for the new sections) on the wiki. Unlike other > Foundations, the ASF is rather liberal, or unopinionated, about other > licenses, provided the deliverables are never part of a release; we never > included user guides with releases, so I think we are fine and I agree with > the "narrow" interpretation of the word "release" as defined in > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-552 > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
