[...]Patrick and Ed are (IMHO understandably) quite reluctant to re-license theI 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.
NeoOffice code, since that means that any company can take the code and
reuse it _without_ _contributing_ _back_. That is the main problem here.
Ed and Patrick have put so much of their own time and money into
NeoOffice, that they are unwilling to let a company take their code,
close-source it, and use it under the SISSL license, which would be
completely possible if the code were brought back into the OpenOffice.org
tree and CVS.
Yeah, that seems to be way the wind is blowing. While both Patrick and Ed have the last say and I don't presume to speak for them, this is my more-or-less current understanding over the course a many conversations with both of them. They are not willing to upstream the work in NeoOffice unless it is available in a FOSS license _only_, (e.g. no SISSL or other non-OSS license). I'm not sure where they stand on the LGPL vs. GPL debate however.
Ed? Patrick?
Dan
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