Hello Ian, 2011/10/18 Ian Lynch <[email protected]>
> On 18 October 2011 09:15, Charles-H. Schulz < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > 2011/10/17 webmaster for Kracked Press Productions < > > [email protected]> > > > > > > > > The big thing about "The Apache Way" is they want to own the code our > > > volunteers have worked on for the past year. > > > > > > I wonder how many of these people are willing to hand over their > > > copyrights? > > > > > > > I don't think you have to hand over your copyrights at ASF; but the > licence > > allows anyone to take your contribution and turn it into proprietary > > software. > > > > Which is a consideration everyone should take seriously. There is a clear > philosophical issue there. On the other hand, if you want a standard like > .odf to proliferate as widely as possible - a real goal for marketing... > Apple has spread the BSD code more than desktop GNU/Linux from all the > distros. > > > Also, since there is a move to replace Java coding with Python coding as > > > the code base is cleaned out of unneeded and "bad" coding. Does that > > mean > > > that Apache's OOo project will not be able to us the code LO people > > create, > > > even if they will allow the code owners to keep their copyrights? > > > > > > > There are two different questions, here, one about copyrights and the > other > > one about language. On copyright and licence the situation is clear: At > > Apache you can't reuse our code legally as their licence does not allow > it. > > > > Well you can re-use the code, but not maintaining a copy left license. > > > > One contributor here would have to specifically relicence its code back > > into > > Apache to make that work. > > > Only one? I thought it would be several? > "One" being the theoretical example. It applies to the plural case as well. > > When it comes to language it's somewhat different. > > I understand that the two codebases are growing more and more different > and > > it is a wrong idea to think that now, in the last quarter of 2011, you > can > > just "plug out and plug in" code chunks from and to each of the suites. > By > > the way, AOO has not yet been released anyway. > > > > True, still quite a lot to do but with the number of people working on it, > it's going to happen at some time. > It defintely will. I would even guess it'll be around Spring 2012. > > Most of the software listed is not enduser software, actually. In fact it > is > > interesting to note that Apache does not develop end-user software, and > > Apache OpenOffice would be their first one. > > > > But what really matters is the developers working on the project and most > of > them have experience not only of developing end-user software, but OOo. The > Apache structure is quite different from the old OOo organisation so it > will > take time to optimise in the new environment. The good thing is that it > appears to be a lot more flexible so I'd say given time it will be an > improvement rather than make things worse from a management point of view. > Marketing is a bit of a void at the moment but there is work on that > beginning. > Thank you Ian. Please do not take my following comment as a refusal to discuss, but I'd like to keep this marketing list as a list for marketing LibreOffice, and not as a general discussion list (but you can have this discussion on discuss@, of course). best, Charles. > > -- > Ian > > Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications (The Schools ITQ) > > www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940 > > The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, > Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and > Wales. > > -- > 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/marketing/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- 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/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
