> I understand this as a strong vote for dropping the SISSL license to > make a joint effort of the Mac Teams possible again. Is this also the > opinion of the complete NeoOffice Team or just your's ? I really would > like to try to move something here in Sun if I'd have the commitment of > the NeoOffice Team to have some backing to do so.
I can't vouch that Patrick would release the code under LGPL (though I haven't seem him exclude it), but I think we can safely say NeoOffice will never join the OOo codebase as long as the SISSL requirement is in place. I am a bit vexed by this. As I argued earlier, there are not likely to be many enterprises who want to do something with OOo on the Mac. So licensing requirement are so much less urgent.. By contrast, on Windows, the market is that much bigger, leaving room for more players. On Linux, there are so many distributors that very free access to the source is needed. And of course, Sun wants to support their Solaris OS. But Mac doesn't have any of these issues, though I suspect Sun would love a chance to take Patrick and Ed's work and field it as StarOffice 7 for Mac. But Dan has made the point clearly enough. If there is willingness among the OpenOffice community to look at this in a flexible manner, I'd be happy to plead for a solution back at the NeoOffice forums. Again, I am just trying to bring people together, and I have no decision making authority. But in my experience, a problem is only a problem is you define it that way and en open mind goes a long way. Once again, I'd like to invite opinions from the Mac volunteer team and OOo staff members who are involved in this. Best wishes, Oscar __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
