Hi Greg, *, I pull this in a new thread, as it is basic for understanding the difference between OCA and ICLA.
Greg Stein schrieb: [..] > Let's also not forget that neither TDF nor the ASF require copyright > assignment. The copyright remains with the contributor. Same thing with OCA. You don't/didn't "sell" your copy right instead it was shared. > Thus, the patch can be offered to the TDF under its suggested > LGPLv3/MPL combination, and offered separately to the ASF under an > ALv2 license(*). I don't see the basical difference between OCA and ICLA here. Of course I see the difference between Oracle as a commercial company and Apache Software Foundation as a charity. :o)) [..] > (*) strictly speaking, you do not offer code to the ASF under any > specific license. your ICLA grants the ASF a right to release your > code under a license of its choosing. which is basically the same Oracle can do with contributions granted under terms of OCA. By the way: If this topic already was discussed elsewhere I appreciate an archive link. Gruß/regards -- Friedrich Libreoffice-Box http://libreofficebox.org/ LibreOffice and more on CD/DVD images -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
