Hi :) I think Alex's objections have been cleared away by Dennis's clarifications so i suspect that Alex might well be willing to contribute under dual-licensing. As i understand it the objection was something to do with individuals having to sign an agreement with Apache but Dennis said that would not be required. I am a little hazy about that tho!
I think that if employees of a 3rd party company have been ordered to work on LibreOffice then it's likely that the company has accepted that works produced by them are not the property of the 3rd party company. The company's i can think of that are likely to let (or order) employees to work on LO are ones such as Novel, RedHat, Canonical, Google or perhaps governments such as the Spanish ones all of whom are quite familiar with and welcoming of the idea of employees doing work for other companies because it gives them a better end-product when combined with their own stuff. I'm never sure about what is going on in Brasil but again it seems to be positive about this sort of thing. Companies that are really strict about claiming their employees work as their own are unlikely to be contributing workers time to this project in the first place. I gather there are some companies that impose restrictions on what employees do with their free-time especially if using company equipment. I think employees of such companies are likely to already be aware of the likelihood of those sorts of restrictions. So, i think all objections to dual-licensing have been eliminated but i'm still not completely certain of that. The pedantry and legalese in this thread is difficult to understand but from what i can gather i think dual-licensing of new documentation is possible without any individuals signing CLA agreements? Regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Licensing-for-NEW-documents-tp3536793p3539853.html Sent from the Documentation mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
