Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Donald Harbison <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yes, that is the right sequence. Our project is Apache OpenOffice, no >> question there. The intent behind the future code contribution of Symphony >> is to make it possible to harvest some of the value from it, and to merge >> that value into Apache OpenOffice. PPMC members affiliated with IBM, will be >> volunteering to do this effort in collaboration with others in the project, >> in the Apache Way. >> >> Building Apache OpenOffice from Oracle's Software Grant to Apache is the >> priority. If there's another view on this, let's here it. > > Symphony replaced most of OO.o's GPL/LGPL dependencies with more > liberally licensed code. Shouldn't we use those bits now, to get to > Apache OO.o quickly? > > Damjan >
We have to have the code to make sure that it will build properly before making any changes. Then the process to remove/replace unusable code. This is where the IBM code can be looked at and added. Andy
