Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Dec 6, 2011 1:22 AM, "Rob Weir" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd like to draw your attention to the following wiki page. It lists > the libraries that are being removed from the code, because of > incompatible licenses. It lists the replacement, where they exist, as > well as the user impact. > > This information will be useful to testing the 3.4 released. We > should focus on the areas where we are introducing new libraries.
Very useful. Thanks. > > But I think it will also be interesting if you have heard (as I have) > people suggest that AOO 3.4 will be greatly degraded in functionality > due to the IP cleanup, and the resulting release will not be usable. > I think much of the confusion is due to imperfect knowledge about what > is permissible in Apache source versus binary releases. You might want to unpack that a little. Apache doesn't do binary releases. Projects often provide binary packages built directly from source releases as a convenience. Perhaps I'm missing the point you are trying to make here. > > In any case, I invite you to consult the following page, and see the > functionality that will be impacted. Note that in at least two cases > the replacements will be functional improvements to the code that is > being removed. > > If you know of something that is missing from the table, feel free to > add it. Let's be transparent about the facts and let the FUD > evaporate. > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/IP_Clearance+Impact > > > -Rob
