Re: [libreoffice-l10n] OOo goes to Apache Foundation

2011.06.03 06:19, toki rašė:
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> On 02/06/2011 12:29, Mike Dupont wrote:
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> > This means that changes can be cherry picked out and included in libreoffice, no?
> What changes?
>
> Under the new OOo license there is no requirement for source code to be
> available, much less sent up stream.
>
> Which means that the best license for LibO to use is AGPL, precisely
> because it is incompatible with the EULA that OOo will be distributed
> under. (Unless you don't mind your LibO contributions being used in a
> closed source, priority program that is distributed under a EULA on
> slightly less restrictive than MSO2000 Enterprise Edition.)

What for? IANAL, but as far as I understand, Apache license allows *us* 
to use OOo's code, perhaps even relicensing it under LGPL/MPL. Meanwhile 
LGPL/MPL that *we* are using does *not* give OOo the similar freedom to 
relicense *our* code under Apache license. It's a one-way compatibility.

> > Also, may i ask what is the point of a lgpl. library gpl for an application.
> It allows the program to be distributed as closed source, without making
> that fact immediately obvious.

Not quite. Though MPL (which we are also using for new contributions) 
allows something like that to some extent. I personally don't think it's 
a bad thing.

Rimas

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