Hi Louis,
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 13:05 -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
> * The license for code is changing from the early LGPL v 2.1 to 3.0
> effective the Beta of OpenOffice.org 3.0. (The actual date of this
> beta has not been finalized.)
This is something I welcome.
> * The Joint Copyright Assignment form (JCA) is being replaced by the
> Sun Microsystems Inc. Contributor Agreement (SCA). This change is
> effective immediately with this announcement.
This is something else that looks really interesting, but I have a few
questions:
> The new license is a major reason to exchange the Joint Copyright
> Assignment(JCA) with the Sun Contributor Agreement(SCA) [1].
I don't follow the logic here - can you expand on the coupling between
the license & the copyright assignment ? :-)
> For OpenOffice.org there will be an addendum, which accommodates
> developers of the core OOo codebase and of non-core extensions through
> different contribution models.
Which is encouraging & to be applauded. Unfortunately, though when you
read section 7, it mentions (repeatedly 4x times ?) the "exempted
contributions guidelines" - "as posted by us on OpenOffice.org".
Are those guidelines posted on OpenOffice.org ? if not what does:
> It comes into effect with this announcement.
mean ?
Also, there are some improvements possible wrt. Section 7 - eg. how
does updating modules in "external" projects (eg. boost under BSD) fit
with this clause ? is that something only Sun can do ? [ eg.
(hypothetically) how could Fridrich commit an updated version of
libwpd ? ].
Anyhow - as I say, I cautiously applaud the move here, indeed I'd like
to enthusiastically applaud it :-) though clearly without the critical
guidelines that is rather hard.
HTH,
Michael.
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