On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > I also notice that the Apache CLA is not a copyright assignment, it is > simply a non-exclusive license with the usual attestation that I have the > right to grant the license and it is my original work. (Patch contributions > apparently don't even require a CLA, but committers do.) One could make the > same contribution to both an Apache project and LibreOffice, although it > takes more work. For individual contributors such as myself: > <http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt> > > > > So, in that regard, it is not like the transfer that I understand Sun/Oracle > required for contributions to OO.o.
That is incorrect. the Sun/Oracle Ccontributor Agreement stipulate a 'join' ownership. http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/oca.pdf It is essentially the same thing, except that in turn Apache grant license to everybody to do what-ever they want with the code (i.e not copy-left) whereas Sun/Oracle where doing that only to a select few of their choosing. So, from a Third-Party Closed License perspective Apache License is 'better'... but from a 'community' point of view it is just as bad. Norbert _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
