Michael Meeks wrote: > So - since you want to kill the thread, lets try to do that; but first > I must address this:
I don't want to kill the thread - I'm not even empowered to do that. :-) Please see at the end of the mail what I wanted to see stopped. > Unfortunately, reading back, it looks as if: before Martin checked with > the lawyers and confirmed that you did not have such a relationship > (thanks Martin), you argument was framed only in defense of Sun's right > to re-license our code under any terms :-) > > It's good to see the principle laid out clearly: that Sun will not deal > with Butler-alikes, that it would be ridiculous to do so & I welcome > that & couldn't agree more. As you brought me in context I must add something here. I can't speak for Sun in a legal meaning - so can't Martin. That's the reason why he checked back with Sun Legal, just to be able to give a definitive answer (as this was asked for). I didn't say that I don't believe that Sun would relicence the code under any terms. Of course that is possible in the same way as Novell does with Mono. And Sun does mention that on the SCA FAQ page as I quoted in one of my mails. So does Novell on the Mono contribution page. I absolutely understand if people take this fact as a reason not to contribute. For me that wouldn't be a problem. If a company gave me the opportunity to get some useful open source software and adjust it to my needs I would gladly accept that wonderful opportunity and contribute my code back. That would be my "thank you" for the huge amount of work that the company already had invested and that gives me a benefit. Unfortunately I'm not interested enough in e.g. Mono to proove that ;-), so you must take my word for it. I hope that is enough. Of course, as always, YMMV. Or better: we know that your mileage varies. You told it to us all too often to overlook that. Insinuating a participation of Sun in the case of "Butler office" really is ridiculous. *That* is the stupid part of the thread I would like to see stopped. The rest might still be boring, as it presents the same arguments we heard days, weeks or months ago (and probably we will also hear days, weeks and months later), but that's life. 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]
