Hi Marc, all Marc paré wrote: > [...] > Oracle has donated the OpenOffice code to the Apache Foundation. [...] > > As for myself, not having had the experience of working on the OOo > project, nor experience with Apache licensing projects, I think the > LibreOffice community is here to stay and I will be here to participate > for as long as I can. The direction we, as a community, are heading, > fits nicely with my values in participating in a meritocratic > organisation, as well, the LGPL and Creative Commons licences seem a > great fit for the code and our contributed materials.
There is one point important to mention in this situation: As far as I know, Apache community is a community of developers. Their meritocratic processes rely on code contribution. There is no Apache project I know of that contains as many and as important non-developers as our community. Rob Weir (IBM) already posted his idea of splitting the community in developers and non-coders, having the developer community as part of the Apache foundation and the other "supporting" community members outside the foundation [1]. Best regards Bernhard [1]: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201106.mbox/%3cof27f1d9cf.2f849914-on852578a2.0059994a-852578a2.005ae...@lotus.com%3e -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
