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On 18 October 2011 10:53, Charles-H. Schulz <
charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org> wrote:

Hello Ian,

2011/10/18 Ian Lynch <ianrlynch@gmail.com>

I don't think you have to hand over your copyrights at ASF; but the
licence
allows anyone to take your contribution and turn it into proprietary
software.

Which is a consideration everyone should take seriously. There is a clear
philosophical issue there. On the other hand, if you want a standard like
.odf to proliferate as widely as possible - a real goal for marketing...
 Apple has spread the BSD code more than desktop GNU/Linux from all the
distros.

Thank you Ian. Please do not take my following comment as a refusal to
discuss, but I'd like to keep this marketing list as a list for marketing
LibreOffice, and not as a general discussion list (but you can have this
discussion on discuss@, of course).


I thought it was relevant to marketing since the license is likely to affect
proliferation. Of course there is then a tension between philosophy and
marketing benefit and the judgement might well be that philosophy is more
important.

Also I'd say if ASF has a weakness it is that most of their product line has
never needed marketing in the same way as an end-user product has. That is
where marketing strategies might differ, both because of the license and
because of different culture. From an objective point of view communities
might learn from each other as to which aspects within their own sets of
constraints are most effective.

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