Why JCA is considered evil? It is considered a backdoor permitting the receiver of JCA (being it Sun, Novell or somebody else) to circumvent GPL and to close the source of the project.
If Sun wanted to close the source of the project, it could just stop committing any code. Just imagine Sun had done that after the release of OpenOffice.org 1.0, how many features would you have today?
I know StarOffice has some extra stuff, but all the core features went into both OpenOffice.org and StarOffice!
The scenario can go like that:
1. the company who has received JCA is copyright owner for the entire source code, so it can release it under a new, closed, license.
Once the code has made it into OpenOffice.org it would continue to be available under the OpenOffice.org licenses in place at that point in time, wouldn't it? In addition, the original code contributor would still have the right to donate it somewhere else under whatever license due to the JOINT copyright, am I wrong?
Maybe I'm too short-sighted but what is the real risk???
Cheers, Erwin
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