Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mac App Store

If they are considering pulling the plug on the OOo line they would be 
on our side. I think its worth a shot in my honest opinion.

On 01/13/2011 01:19 PM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote:
> Hey Jonathan,
>
> 1) Sigrid is right, we would need to ask for Oracle to relicense.
> 2) The new, non-Oracle patches are however licensed under a dual (L)GPL
> v3 + (note the + which allows us to upgrade) and MPL + as we found we
> had several code lines written under that license inside the existing
> OOo code.
> 3) would Oracle object to it? I'm not Oracle and can't speak for them,
> but I don't think they're our best friends for life... :-) More
> seriously, why would they want to help us ?
>
> Best,
> Charles.
>
> Le Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:51:52 +0100,
> Jonathan Aquilina<eagles051387@gmail.com>  a écrit :
>
> > In all honesty would they object to it?
> >
> > On 1/13/11 11:46 AM, Sigrid Carrera wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > 2011/1/13 Jonathan Aquilina<eagles051387@gmail.com>:
> > > > You would still need permission even though its a fork of the
> > > > original code?
> > > yes, since the original contributors agreed to use a specific
> > > license. This cannot changed without consent from those people.
> > >
> > > Sigrid


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