Re: [tdf-discuss] OCA vs. ICLA: two names - one thing?

Hi Greg, Dennis, Friedrich, all

thanks for pointing to this very topic.

So if I understand it right, the difference is a legal one with probably
minor consequences in code usage:

While with ICLA the contributer keeps the copyright on his own (and thus
needs personal legal assistance or an additional contract in case of
copyright infringement claims) the OCA / JCA allows the entity sharing
the copyright to behave as copyright owner in legal conflicts.

Both allow the entity to release the code under any license (or single
case authorization) they want to.

I don't want to discuss the possibility of positive or negative impacts
of single sided license changes in comparison to updateable "plus" licenses.

But is there a difference in licensing and code usage by third parties 
between OCA and ICLA (except the fact, that they can use Apache licensed 
code without being forced to negotiate with and probably pay fees to 
Oracle if they don't want to contribute back)?

Best regards

Bernhard

PS: Just one addition to a point below...

Greg Stein schrieb:
> [...]
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 21:17, Dennis E. Hamilton
> <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>  wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > With regard to copyright, the Apache ICLA is very much like the
> > license that the terms of use for the openoffice.org site assert
> > that you are providing in making contributions on the site (without
> > having entered into any OCA).[...]

While this is true for copyright of contributions not to be included in 
the product OpenOffice.org, re-usage of the contributions are different 
(copyleft license on the OOo site, permissive license at Apache) and 
inclusion of any contribution to the code of OOo was dependent on a 
signed JCA/OCA, as they have been rejected by Sun/Oracle even if they 
have been licensed under LGPL.

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