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Hello,

in bug #31633 I proposed a patch to one of the export filters. It looks like my contribution has been positively received but I have been asked to explicitly state that my contribution is licensed under the usual MPL 1.1 / GPLv3 / LGPLv3 and to add the standard LibreOffice license header to my file.

While I have no problems with the usual LibO license, I prefer releasing my contributions under the ISC/OpenBSD license [1]. While it is legally possible to integrate ISC-licensed code in existing MPL/GPL/LGPL code bases [2], I would like to have an explicit assurance that using such licensed code is OK in LibreOffice.

So, the question is: are ISC/BSD-licensed contributions acceptable?

Regards,

[1] The ISC license is a BSD-like license. It is very short; without the usual warranty disclaimer it is just:
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Copyright (c) 20YY John Doe

Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
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[2] http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl collaboration.html

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Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>


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