On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Simon Phipps <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 17 Jan 2012, at 01:07, Joe Schaefer wrote: > >> Did you have trouble with the part where >> he wrote "this mailing list"? In any case >> we have 1-way compatibility from AL to LGPL >> so there's little technical need for it. > > No, Joe, I spotted that, but thanks for your concern. > > This meme only arises in Rob's communications in connection with LibreOffice > contributors being encouraged to join Apache. Licensing is as much a > community choice as it is a mechanical matter, and as a member of both > communities I have observed that the apparent encouragement to weaken > affiliation with LibreOffice diminishes Apache's credibility among many > LibreOffice community members. > > My comment to Rob was by way of a reminder that it would be better to stop > acting divisively like this. My apologies if this brevity was confusing. >
Simon, If you think it is divisive for me to encourage people to join Apache, use the Apache license and to download and install Apache products, then I must apologize profusely for that, as well as the far greater anguish I will surely be causing you in the future. -Rob > S. >
