[libreoffice-l10n] OOo goes to Apache Foundation

Hi,

Probably you've read the news, OOo code and trademarks were given to
Apache Foundation. For details start reading
here:
http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/06/01/statement-about-oracles-move-to-donate-openoffice-org-assets-to-the-apache-foundation/
and here: http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2011-06-01.html

Let me shortly comment this – wearing my localizer hat. Apache
Foundation requires Apache License which is not a copyleft license. It
allows use of the source code – and my translations, too – for the
development of proprietary software. Incidentally, that's what IBM is
doing and probably will do in the future: they after all want code
others wrote for free, while keeping their code proprietary and
occasionally dumping the unimportant parts to an open core to ease
maintenance. I feel reluctant to support this scheme.


Best regards,
Andras

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