On Jun 5, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Simon Phipps wrote:

> 
> On 5 Jun 2011, at 19:15, Greg Stein wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 14:05, William A. Rowe Jr. <wr...@rowe-clan.net> 
>> wrote:
>>> On 6/5/2011 10:43 AM, Ralph Goers wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I posted a similar statement yesterday. Personally, I think the traffic on 
>>>> this list has settled down a lot in the last 24 hours and is now focusing 
>>>> in on topics more relevant to this list. But maybe that is just because it 
>>>> was Saturday :-)
>>> 
>>> Agreed, just some quick thoughts...
>>> 
>>>> What I am still waiting to hear on are:
>>>> 1. The amount of code in the project that the grant didn't give to us 
>>>> under the Apache License.
>>> 
>>> List published by Sam, and Christian suggests this reflects the OOo repo...
>>> http://people.apache.org/~rubys/openoffice.files.txt
>>> Actually tearing into that repo for files differently-copyrighted might
>>> be a task for RAT :)
>> 
>> I doubt that you'll find anything "differently-copyrighted" in that
>> list. My understanding is that Oracle created the list with something
>> like "grep '(C) Oracle'" :-)
>> 
>> I'm more interested in the list of files from the Hg repository that
>> are NOT in that list. I gotta believe it is non-zero, so what are
>> they, and how much of a problem will that be?
> 
> I've been discussing this privately with some folk, and while we've not done 
> an exhaustive analysis between us we're fairly sure that list doesn't include 
> any of the (numerous) work-in-progress branches that are not merged into the 
> actual release.  Is it crucial to get a comprehensive list before the podlet 
> is established, or can ASF still sort this out with Oracle in incubation?

I personally don't need anything "sorted out" before the project enters 
incubation. All I care about is whether the community will be able to 
effectively deal with it or be blocked by it. That just requires some idea of 
how big a problem it is.

Ralph


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