On 28 Jun 2011, at 14:37, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Christian Grobmeier > <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> OOO uses (or will use in future) the ASL 2.0 license, >>> OOO is LGPLv3, the AOO fork will be ASL2 >> >> To my knowledge the OOo trademark will be transferred to the ASF (or >> is already?). >> Therefore I would not say this project is a fork of OOo, it is OOo. No? > > "Eric Raymond, in his seminal essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar,[1] > stated in 1997 that "The most important characteristic of a fork is > that it spawns competing projects that cannot later exchange code, > splitting the potential developer community"." > > So, since OOo and LO have compatible license that allow code exchange > and AOO won't, then it seems that that qualify as a 'fork' of OOo.
With the greatest possible respect, this is a divisive discussion that helps no-one. The former OpenOffice.org project no longer exists and is being replaced by two (hopefully co-operating) open source projects deriving works from its source code but both different from it in multiple ways. S.
