RE: [tdf-discuss] Re: RE : Re: RE: Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

It seems very clear that the Apache Foundation will not do that -- re-license.  They have neither 
desire nor self-interest in so doing, based on what their high-level participants have said.

However, by reintegrating the Apache OpenOffice.org bits, LibreOffice can do it themselves.  It 
would require carefully managing the code provenance, because of the restructuring and patches that 
LibreOffice has already done.  But it can be done that way.  

In that respect, the sooner the Apache OpenOffice incubator has the OpenOffice.org someplace under 
the AFL 2.0 license, the sooner that is useful to you for your own relicensing purposes.  (I have 
no idea why you want MPL, and whether there is any clash with the patent terms in AFL 2.0, but I 
don't need to know.)

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Paré [mailto:marc@marcpare.com] 
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 15:20
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Subject: [tdf-discuss] Re: RE : Re: RE: Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

Le 2011-06-04 17:29, Christian Lohmaier a écrit :
> Hi *,
>
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Sam Ruby<rubys@apache.org>  wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Ian Lynch<ianrlynch@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > > I should think there is probably
> > > broader commercial or legal reason for Oracle to hold on to the 
> > > copyright such as tax relief or just in case it *might* somehow become valuable.
> >
> > Oracle offered to transfer the copyright, and I said that it was 
> > neither necessary nor required.
>
> I second that. the TDF would have been more than pleased if Oracle 
> would have re-licensed the code under LGPL+MPL combination (+apache 
> and whatever). Copyright ownership is not required at all. Neither for 
> Apache, nor for TDF.
>
> ciao
> Christian

Could not Apache Foundation do the same thing once it got the code?

Cheers

Marc


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