Re: [gl-discuss] Fwd: [tdf-announce] Statement about Oracle's move to donate OpenOffice.org assets to the Apache Foundation

xa me temía que os de oracle non ían por as cousas sinxelas.

2011/6/1 Anton Meixome <meixome@certima.net>

> OpenOffice.org pasa a control da Fundación Apache
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Florian Effenberger <floeff@documentfoundation.org>
> Date: 2011/6/1
> Subject: [tdf-announce] Statement about Oracle's move to donate
> OpenOffice.org assets to the Apache Foundation
> To: announce@documentfoundation.org
>
>
> The Document Foundation
>
> Statement about Oracle's move to donate OpenOffice.org assets to the
> Apache Foundation
>
> The Internet, June 1st, 2011 - The Document Foundation constitutes a
> global team of hundreds of developers working together to improve the
> LibreOffice product for the benefit of all users. We are governed by
> an open, and meritocratic community headed by a diverse interim
> Steering Committee, and a vendor neutral Engineering Steering
> Committee overseeing development.
>
> Today we welcome Oracle's donation of code that has previously been
> proprietary to the Apache Software Foundation, it is great to see key
> user features released in a form that can be included into
> LibreOffice.
>
> The Document Foundation would welcome the reuniting of the
> OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice projects into a single community of
> equals in the wake of the departure of Oracle. The step Oracle has
> taken today was no doubt taken in good faith, but does not appear to
> directly achieve this goal. The Apache community, which we respect
> enormously, has very different expectations and norms - licensing,
> membership and more - to the existing OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice
> projects. We regret the missed opportunity but are committed to
> working with all active community members to devise the best possible
> future for LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org.
>
> On the bright side, one benefit of this arrangement is the potential
> for future-proof licensing. The Apache License is compatible with both
> the LGPLv3+ and MPL licenses, allowing TDF future flexibility to move
> the entire codebase, to MPLv2 or future LGPL license versions. The
> Document Foundation believes that commercially-friendly, copy-left
> licensing provides the best path to constructive participation in, and
> growth of the project.
>
> Thus, the event is neutral for The Document Foundation, which - as
> always - remains open to every company, individual or foundation that
> wishes to participate in co-development. There has never been a better
> time to get involved and advance the state of the art in free software
> office suites.
>
> TDF is therefore willing to start talking with Apache Software
> Foundation, following the email from ASF President Jim Jagielski, who
> is anticipating frequent contacts between the Apache Software
> Foundation and The Document Foundation over the next few months. We
> all want to offer corporate and individual users worldwide the best
> free office suite for enterprise and personal productivity.
>
> Finally, TDF continue executing on our time-based release plan for
> LibreOffice 3.4.0, due out this week, while continuing work on our bug
> fix release train, with 3.4.1 due in a months time, as well as ongoing
> feature development for our 3.5 release.
>
>
> *** About The Document Foundation
>
> The Document Foundation has the mission of facilitating the evolution
> of the OOo Community into an open, meritocratic and democratic
> organization. An independent Foundation is a better reflection of the
> values of our contributors, users and supporters, and will enable a
> more inclusive, effective, efficient and transparent community. TDF
> will protect past investments by building on the achievements of the
> first decade, will encourage wide participation within the community,
> and will co-ordinate activity across the community.
>
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