Creo que hay una noticia ya taducida sobre esto en la lista. Creo que las respuestas se iran dando paulatinamente.
On 9/3/05, Richard/g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Para su información. > Si alguien puede traducirlo, por favor avise en la lista par evitar > duplicación de esfuerzas. > > saludos, > Richard. > > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: [marcon] License Simplification > Date: Friday 02 September 2005 11:30 > From: Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: John McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jacqueline > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erwin Tenhumberg > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stefan Taxhet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Charles-H.Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Dear MarCons, > > The below is a statement agreed upon by the Community Council > pertaining to a simplification of our licensing structure. Please > translate and distribute it as you will. If you have questions, > and > I am sure you will, don't hesitate to ask us directly. > > Cheers, > Louis > > > > On 2 September 2005 Sun Microsystems announced that it was retiring > the Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL), an Open Source > Initiative (OSI)-approved software license. In recent weeks, the > OSI, which authorises open-source licenses, has been discussing > limiting license proliferation, so as to make the process of > choosing > a license easier for developers and companies. Sun's move is in > support of that objective. > > How does this move affect OpenOffice.org? As most know, > OpenOffice.org code was launched under the dual banner of the SISSL > and LGPL; licensees could choose which one they wanted to use, and > nearly all have chosen the LGPL. Effective with the announcement > that Sun is retiring the SISSL, however, OpenOffice.org will in the > future only be licensed under the LGPL. > > For users, the simplification means: no change. OpenOffice.org > remains free to use, distribute, even sell. One can freely use it > in > commercial as well as government environments; nothing has changed. > > For vendors, distributors, add-on and plug-in writers of > OpenOffice.org: The LGPL allows for commercial distribution > without > affecting derived products in the same way as the GPL. > > For developers and other contributors: As the code will be > licensed > only under the LGPL, modifications to the source must be published. > (The SISSL did not require all changes to the source to be > published.) As most OpenOffice.org contributors are already openly > contributing to the community, we anticipate no problems. And for > those who have been using the SISSL exclusively, we invite you to > join us. > > The OpenOffice.org Community Council > > http://council.openoffice.org > http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/license-change.html > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Alexandro Colorado
