----- Original Message ---- > From: Andy Brown <a...@the-martin-byrd.net> > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Sun, June 5, 2011 5:18:30 PM > Subject: Questions for the cheap seats. > > Hi all. > > This is my fist post here, been lurking from day one. > > As a user I am trying to understand somethings that are going on here. > > 1: LibreOffice was forked due to the way OOo was being handled by Sun/Oracle. > > 2: Last month, Oracle stated that OOo would be turned over to a Foundation > to >run. > > 3: From indications, there had been some discussions between Oracle and The >Document Foundation. Not knowing what was said but it seems that they could >not work out the problems. > > 4: Oracle makes a donation to the Apache Software Foundation. > > Now with this comes some questions; > > 1: What will happen to OOo's code and trademark if the podling is not >approved?
Dunno. > 2: What will happen to OOo's code and trademark if the project does not >graduate? Ditto. > 3: Since the transfer to the ASF is a grant, could the ASF transfer, grant, > to >TDF? While transferring the trademark to a non-US entity is something a lawyer would probably need to sort out for us, licensing it is a path we've been down before with other ASF marks. Things like an non-ASF operated conference like Hadoop World are permitted by an MOU between the parties. Roy or Larry might find a reason to object, but off the top of my head I don't believe there's a substantial reason why we couldn't license the OOo trademark to TDF if things don't work out at the ASF. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
