On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 12:48 -0400, Allen Pulsifer wrote: > The one rational Simon offers that is a little bit different than the usual > is the following: > > "In many cases (including some very well-known open source projects) [the > JCA] also allows the original donor to offer commercial offerings, thus > ensuring the project continues to have engagement funded by its major > participants."
What might be concerning Sun is that a foundation owning the copyright to OOo code, even one that has an explicit mechanism to allow major contributors to continue to make commercial closed source versions of OOo, would probably remove the ability of Sun to unilaterally sub-licence StarOffice under a proprietary license to other co-operations either for profit or as a major bargaining chip for the promotion of other products. C. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
