Hi Olva, On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 07:20:04PM +0100, Olav Dahlum wrote: > Hi. > > Keep in mind that I still own the copyright to most of the translation work
I guess you signed a joint copyright assignment with Sun/Oracle, in one of its forms (JCA, SCA, OCA); otherwise a Sun employee like Rafaella would never have given you access to the server pootle. This means that you, as the author, hold copyright jointly with Oracle over the contribution you've made. As Oracle granted OpenOffice source code, including the translations, to the Apache Software Foundation, now the code is no longer under the umbrella a single corporation, but under the care of a non-profit, charitable organization made of volunteers (as a charitable organization the ASF does not pay for developers: only a few jobs that have to do with keeping the infrastructure working are payed, all other people here are volunteers, some being payed/sponsored by a company, some working in their free time). > since Åpne kontorprogram på norsk > jumped onto LibreOffice, and I'm not impressed by what I have seen so far. Could you please share your concerns? > Any decline in the quality will not be tolerated by either me, Axel > Bojer (since 2002), or any other person who have put a lot of time > into the project. Please note that releases are voted here at Apache, and none will vote to release something that hasn't the quality OpenOffice users deserve. > When I was told I needed to sign the ICLA, I was > puzzled since I already was a well known contributor. You already signed a joint contribution assignment with Sun/Oracle, this is no longer under effect; any contribution made here at Apache must be under the Apache License v2.0. > And as I couldn't due to technical reasons, it was never done. You simply have to fill this form http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt Sign it, scan it, and e-mail it to [email protected] It's something rather simple. > My Pootle account on the original server was also lost during the > transition, a project people like Rafaella Braconi made available on > the server after my request to do so. The Pootle server was not really migrated, that is, only the content was transfered, not the accounts inforamtion. In the current set up, only Apache Committers can have an account in the Pootle server. Non Apache committers are welcome to work off-line with the preferred translation tool. > So before this really takes a wrong and unrecoverable turn, the > control must be put back into my hands. We are simply volunteers, no one has "the control", whatever this could mean. Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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