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?
Well, this is a *theoretical* situation of what *could* happen, I'm not saying this *will* happen, but after SCO actions some people will expect anything
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
You forgot my second point, about software patents which can shut down OpenOffice.org but not StarOffice.
would still have the right to donate it somewhere else under whatever license due to the JOINT copyright, am I wrong?
But he originally intended his code to be GPL and stay GPL and his desire was circumvented, if he don't cared about this in the first place he would joined a project with a BSD license.
-- nicu my OpenOffice.org pages: http://ooo.nicubunu.ro
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