On 2013-06-06, at 02:23 , Kadal Amutham <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Andrea for the response. In general how our community feels about > this process?
This is the nature of open source. Equally, as Andrea points out and as I think most would agree, what is crucial is acknowledging the debt--and then also to pay it back by contributing *back* to OpenOffice. So, the issue is not that Libre Office or any other derivative uses Apache OpenOffice code, the issue is rather whether they contribute back to the project to which they are indebted. And the larger campaign is then to inform the tech press of the imbalance, if that is what it is. For right now, it seems that the tech press wrongly believes that Libre Office is in the vanguard and that OpenOffice is limping along, in arrears. louis > > With Warm Regards > > V.Kadal Amutham > 919444360480 > 914422396480 > > > On 6 June 2013 00:54, Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 05/06/2013 Kadal Amutham wrote: >> >>> In one of the threads, there was a discussion regarding source code of AOO >>> being used by LibreOffice. Please correct me if I am wrong. >>> >> >> This is correct and well known (well, maybe not as widely known as it >> should be). Code from all version of Apache OpenOffice has been reused. >> Notable examples include Armin's SVG import and Andre's Sidebar work. >> >> >> If this happens this shall be considered as a credit by AOO community. We >>> shall feel happy to share our code in full or in part. What we can expect >>> in return is mention of contribution of code by AOO community. >>> >> >> It is acknowledged most of the times, even though it is not done very >> prominently and at times individual contributors are credited instead of >> the Apache OpenOffice project (which would probably be clearer). >> >> Regards, >> Andrea. >> >> ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> marketing-unsubscribe@**openoffice.apache.org<[email protected]> >> For additional commands, e-mail: >> marketing-help@openoffice.**apache.org<[email protected]> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
