--- Lun 19/12/11, Michael Meeks <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> Hi Pedro, > > On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 06:32 -0800, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > > > I'd prefer to see myself as part of the freedom > loving, > >> non-corporate dominated group of hackers having > fun. > > > > And that's fine because you are not me. I am real > > engineer (Mechanical) BTW ;). > > I find your jokes somewhat hard to parse; I wonder > whether this quip, juxtaposed with you as 'navy' and > me as 'pirate' is intended to read as > a qualitative comparison of the relative depth of our > experience, professionalism, or product quality. I > would build my defense of that, not on my MEng (Cantab) > but on my decade of mistakes in the world of > Free Software ;-) [ and still learning ]. > Please don't take anything personally. I just find it amusing that your signature says you are a pseudo-engineer, and on the other side of the coin I am proud to be an engineer. In my case being an engineer has nothing to do with software so I sort of get a different feeling where the "pseudo-engineer" thing comes from. I guess we are each other's nemesis?? ;-). > > And you still have more to do: surprisingly AOO is at > this time > > the only GPL-compatible OpenOffice codebase. (OK, I > haven't > > looked if Neooffice removed the GPL-incompatible code > but ... > > who cares about them). > > Looks like a nasty nucleus of potential > FUD. If you are aware of some > licensing problem, please send a reasonably detailed > notification to > some official contact point; [email protected] > might be good for that. > Quite bluntly, the licensing issues TDF may have are not something I care about but I have warned some LO developers in private of the issues we have found. Concretely: - The lcc preprocessor we replaced with ucpp. - The use of (GPL-incompatible) LPPL in some stuff in the dictionaries. This was known in OOo but is not an issue in AOO anymore. > > > That in no sense means we will be 'based on > Apache > > > OpenOffice Incubating' - we will not be. > > > > There is no way around that. > > So you appear to think :-) the work is > not yet started; no doubt you'll > enjoy the result. > I am glad that you found a solution that works for you, the AL2 is indeed made to have the code useable for everyone. Pedro.
