Re: Feature porting from LibreOffice

2014-09-10 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Andrea, 2014-09-09 20:58 GMT+02:00 Andrea Pescetti : > Guy Waterval wrote: > >> Not possible for a developer to use a double licence ? >> > > Sure it is possible. And it is also possible for the copyright holder to > add the Apache 2 license to work previously released under other, usually >

Re: Feature porting from LibreOffice

2014-09-10 Thread RA Stehmann
On 09.09.2014 20:58, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Guy Waterval wrote: >> Not possible for a developer to use a double licence ? > > Sure it is possible. And it is also possible for the copyright holder to > add the Apache 2 license to work previously released under other, > usually more restrictive, l

Re: Feature porting from LibreOffice

2014-09-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/09/2014 Markus Wernig wrote: OK, this sounds like good news. So if the developers of the original (currently broken) code and those of the (to be developed) fix agree to, eg. license it under both MPL and AL, we could use both code parts in both LO and AOO? Even Apache License version 2 (

Re: Feature porting from LibreOffice

2014-09-09 Thread Markus Wernig
Hi all Sorry, one reply to two posts, but they seem so much related, it would be hard to separate them ... On 09/09/2014 08:58 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Guy Waterval wrote: >> Not possible for a developer to use a double licence ? > > Sure it is possible. And it is also possible for the copyr

Re: Feature porting from LibreOffice

2014-09-09 Thread Kay Schenk
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 6:40 AM, Markus Wernig wrote: > On 09/09/2014 03:31 PM, Vladislav Stevanovic wrote: > >> Background: I am currently trying to get some devs together to fix a > >> feature (creating digitally signed PDFs) that exists under the > >> "experimental" features of LO (and does not

Re: Feature porting from LibreOffice

2014-09-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Guy Waterval wrote: Not possible for a developer to use a double licence ? Sure it is possible. And it is also possible for the copyright holder to add the Apache 2 license to work previously released under other, usually more restrictive, licenses. Or maybe the double licence is only poss

Re: Feature porting from LibreOffice

2014-09-09 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Michael, > > That's a problem of licenses. The Apache License has no so called > copyleft, so LibreOffice can use our code. But LibreOffice uses licences > with a (weak) copyleft, so we can't use their code, if the developer > doesn't use also the Apache License (v 2.0) for his or hers code. >

Re: Feature porting from LibreOffice

2014-09-09 Thread RA Stehmann
On 09.09.2014 15:10, Markus Wernig wrote: > Hi all > > Obviously there are some features in AOO that do not exist in LO and > vice versa. > > I was wondering what the current possibilities are to get certain > features from LO integrated into AOO. > > Background: I am currently trying to get som

Re: Feature porting from LibreOffice

2014-09-09 Thread Markus Wernig
On 09/09/2014 03:31 PM, Vladislav Stevanovic wrote: >> Background: I am currently trying to get some devs together to fix a >> feature (creating digitally signed PDFs) that exists under the >> "experimental" features of LO (and does not work at the moment). If that >> should succeed, I would like t

Re: Feature porting from LibreOffice

2014-09-09 Thread FR web forum
>From LibO to AOO, I already posted this question one year ago: http://openoffice.2283327.n4.nabble.com/LibO-code-will-be-integrated-to-AOO-td4649464.html - Mail original - De: "Markus Wernig" À: dev@openoffice.apache.org Envoyé: Mardi 9 Septembre 2014 15:10:01 Objet: Fe

Re: Feature porting from LibreOffice

2014-09-09 Thread Vladislav Stevanovic
>Background: I am currently trying to get some devs together to fix a >feature (creating digitally signed PDFs) that exists under the >"experimental" features of LO (and does not work at the moment). If that >should succeed, I would like to see that feature also in AOO. I am not an expert but, as

Feature porting from LibreOffice

2014-09-09 Thread Markus Wernig
Hi all Obviously there are some features in AOO that do not exist in LO and vice versa. I was wondering what the current possibilities are to get certain features from LO integrated into AOO. Background: I am currently trying to get some devs together to fix a feature (creating digitally signed