Hi Michael, On Apr 19, 2012, at 9:24 AM, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi there, > > Just digging through the code looking at some (re)-licensing issues we > have to deal with, and I'm wondering about the license of code in Child > Workspaces (branches in Mercurial). > > It would be my hope (and for both project's benefit) that existing > patches (ie. CWS), to the code that Oracle has contributed under the > AL2, would also be available under the AL2. > > Is that the case ? reading: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/OOOUSERS/summary-of-apache-openoffice-34-ip-review-activities.html > > I see: > > "The ASF received two Software Grant Agreements from Oracle, the > first on June 1st, 2011 and a supplemental one on October 17th, > 2011. Presumably these agreements are available for inspection > by Apache Members." > > "The list of files covered by each of these grants, were > extracted from the SGA and can be found in _these files_" > > Which seems to just have flat lists of files, and I had a couple of > questions: > > 1. Are those SGA's unmodified, and/or does the scope extend > beyond the plain list of files, and just one version of > them ? > > 2. Is the text of these SGA's made public somewhere ? > (prolly a FAQ) I'm confused by this 'Members only' > restriction that is presumed. Good questions. I can partially answer: "Members only" refers to an Apache Software Foundation Members private area. > > Anyhow - glad to see Oracle has got close to the end of getting the > code out there: good stuff. It'd be nice to get some clarity around > those CWS' that are not yet merged, eg. Armin's nice work in CWS aw080. Armin has been working on aw080 in a branch here at AOO: incubator/ooo/branches/alg/aw080 I know that people have made sure they have copies of mercurial. > > It'd be really useful to have a statement on that - or perhaps I just > missed an existing one, help appreciated ! Maybe search the archives for aw080? This is the help I can provide perhaps others will answer further. Regards, Dave > > Thanks, > > Michael. > > -- > [email protected] <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot >
