On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Simon Phipps <si...@webmink.com> wrote: > > On 7 Jul 2011, at 13:17, Mathias Bauer wrote: >> >> This would at least require that someone having done that at LO would >> contribute a patch for OOo. Having a patch could help to do the removal >> in the same way as in LO. That could make sure that afterwards the code >> bases became more similar and merging of code changes could become >> easier in the future. Perhaps that's something you should suggest on the >> LO dev list. >> >> (I hope this suggestion isn't seen as an offense - really, if you are >> asking for patches you have to ask those who did the work, not those who >> might receive it.) > > Not an offense, no, although we might consider it's unlikely that a volunteer > in any project would want to do this sort of work twice. We may instead want > to encourage new Apache volunteers who want to join the development activity > but need to learn how everything works to create patches that mirror the > cleanup at LO, as a route to learning about AOOo.
I encourage everybody who considers doing this to read sections 5 and 7 of the ICLA: http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt > S. - Sam Ruby
