Greg Stein wrote:
how can you say that Apache "removes rights from people's contributions"? As a developer, you still own your code. You can do whatever you like with it. Apache doesn't take anything from You.
Easy. Even a non-developer like myself can see that :) Compared to GPL (which is what Apache is asking developers to give up on) it removes the right to be given back any improvement or fix to the code you contributed. Since many people are doing this pro bono, I think that it is fair that at least they retain the right to have access to any fix or improvement to their code. Under the Apache license any company can take your code, fix it and say: "Hey, this function in the open source version doesn't work. I just spend a day fixing it (instead of months to write it from scratch). Why don't you buy mine which works?" -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Re-Libreoffice-Proposal-to-join-Apache-OpenOffice-tp3043423p3071042.html Sent from the Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+help@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted