Michael Meeks schrieb: >> But a clarification of the implications of the JCA wasn't what Michael >> Meeks asked for (and BTW also nobody else until now). He pointed at >> Sun for asking for a JCA without mentioning that his company is doing >> exactly the same in other projects. I felt the need to correct that >> false impression. > > As you know from my blog, I've been extremely up-front about this (much > as, incidentally, I disapprove of & would improve Novell's copyright > assignment > practices around evolution & mono): Your blog is completely irrelevant here. If you are putting your accusations on the mailing list you will be judged by what you write here. It's quite possible that people reading here never came across your blog. So there *was* a false impression. And I welcome that you have helped to correct it after my intervention.
My point is that the people leading Mono or many other projects know that a copyright assignment is necessary (at least for projects that have some relevance outside of the company that created it) and so they ask for it. The same does Sun for OOo. This is not "good" or "bad" - it's just vital for the project's future. Your argument about your personal feelings wrt. to the copyright assignment practice at Novell is not relevant. It's easy to argue against them because it's clear that this won't change anything. The people leading the projects know that the copyright assignment is necessary for them, regardless of what Michael Meeks, Mathias Bauer or anybody else might think. I also don't believe that you will fight against the CA in Novell's projects with the same dilligence, noise and press hype as you do in case of OOo but of course I also don't expect that. ;-) Perhaps now we can head for something completely different. I'm still hoping that we can reestablish the good relationship we once had and that I enjoyed a lot. You have made your point: you don't like the SCA. We all know it now. That's enough. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
