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 Hi all,
I'm Croatian translation coordinator for OOo, and I support The Document
Foundation and LibreOffice.

I have question on this topic.
Is there any possibility that Oracle *can* sue OpenOffice.org
contributor who signed a contract about sharing the contributor's
copyright only because contributor decide to contribute to LibO with
same content, too?
For example,
I signed contract with Sun Microsystems.
Oracle has bought Sun Microsystems.
I contribute Croatian translation to OOo.
Same content + new translation I contribute to LibO.
Can I be sued?


Best,
Robetr Sedak

On 2.10.2010 21:01, Dr. Bernhard Dippold wrote:
Hi all,

just starting to collect additional FAQ entries to be added to 
http://www.documentfoundation.org/faq/

Please provide questions and answers you think to be important, improve my wordings and content, 
if I'm not clear enough or simply wrong.

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Q: What are copyright agreements (CA/JCA/SCA) with Oracle and why are they counterproductive to 
OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice and FOSS?

A: Every contributor to OpenOffice.org code has to sign a contract about sharing the 
contribution's copyright with Oracle. As this agreement can't be retracted it covers all future 
contributions too. This allows Oracle to behave as the copyright owner, claiming copyright 
infringement and other legal rights.
On the other hand this agreement allows them to release the contribution under any license they 
want to, including proprietary ones, without the contributor having any right to refuse it.

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Best regards

Bernhard



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