Re: [tdf-discuss] Triple licensing?

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 07:00, Simon Phipps <simon@webmink.com> wrote:
> On 14 Jun 2011, at 06:55, Keith Curtis wrote:
>
> > Hi all;
> >
> > I had an idea that you could offer to let people triple-license their
> > changes. LibreOffice can become an upstream of Apache with this change. That
> > way people not interested in setting up build servers, etc. can work here
> > while Apache setup the infrastructure. Given the state of the code dump,
> > many people will not be able to contribute today, and this lets them.
> >
> > I think this would be a nice invitation to the Apache community.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> As far as I am aware there's no problem with making contributions to LibreOffice using any open 
> source license that's compatible with both MPL and LGPLv3. Since that includes the Apache 
> License, I would expect contributions licensed just under that license to be perfectly acceptable.

Right, Simon. ... but (you saw that coming) would TDF/LO accept
commits into the repository that were only licensed ALv2?

Let's also not forget that neither TDF nor the ASF require copyright
assignment. The copyright remains with the contributor. Thus, the
patch can be offered to the TDF under its suggested LGPLv3/MPL
combination, and offered separately to the ASF under an ALv2
license(*).

Of course, there is no repository right now (speaking to Keith's
original point), so offering a patch under ALv2 would be easiest since
it could be ported to the ASF by anybody. If TDF doesn't accept it,
then the original author would have to do that porting once the ASF
repository arises.

Cheers,
-g

(*) strictly speaking, you do not offer code to the ASF under any
specific license. your ICLA grants the ASF a right to release your
code under a license of its choosing.

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