Re: [tdf-discuss] Oracle copyright on LibreOffice ?

jonathon wrote:
> Note # 3: I'm assuming that Sun, Inc was the sole copyright owner, for
> code added to OOo during the years it ran the project.  If it wasn't,
> the other copyright owners need to have their names added;

Well, there were/are code parts that were/are distributed *with* the 
binaries and that were/are under different licenses and/or copyrighted 
by people who never signed the JCA.

Originally, at least until 2005, those parts were in a CVS branch called 
"external".

I'm sure about this fact because I spent more than 18 month before 
having an authorization from Sun for the Italian spell checker 
dictionary that is co-owned by me, who have signed *2* JCA (the original 
and the newer one) and by a person who has *never* signed those agreements.

Then, there is a long list of third party "contributions" listed under 
"Help>Licence information..." at the end of file and owned from:

Microsoft Corporation <<< Well, quite a surprise...
Bitstream, Inc.
BerkeleyDB
Pavel Rychly, Pavel Smrz, {pary,smrz}@fi.muni.cz, NLPlab, Faculty of 
Informatics, Masaryk University
Alan Murta
LaTeX3 Project

and many others.

Indeed, an accurate legal check about what is *really* included into the 
repositories under LGPL, it's an absolute duty for the new project.
--
Gianluca Turconi
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