On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Mathias Bauer <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 15.06.2011 14:09, Simon Phipps wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Mathias Bauer<[email protected] >> >wrote: >> >> >>> dmake is GPLed and hosted at openoffice.org, because the original >>> developers have abandoned it long time ago. We never made binary releases >>> of >>> dmake and we don't need to do it in the future, but we need to find an >>> "official" place for the dmake source code, so that we can build a binary >>> version for us that can be used to build OOo. >>> >>> >> To clarify: Is dmake part of the source code grant, or is it still the >> property of the original developers and just being hosted on Oracle's >> system >> for convenience? >> >> Thanks >> >> S. >> >> > It's the latter. The copyright is owned by "wticorp" ("Web Tools > International" or so IIRC) and its website is given as > http://dmake.wticorp.com/. Both obviously have vanished. > > IANAL, but dmake can't be part of the software grant as Oracle does not own > the source code of it. It is not part of OOo itself (non of its deliverables > ends up in an OOo package), but it always was built as part of the OOo build > system bootstrap process. > Thanks, that's helpful. > > There are several options for how we can proceed, I just wanted to get some > advice from the mentors which are doable and which aren't. > > Regards, > Mathias > -- Simon Phipps +1 415 683 7660 : www.webmink.com
