Re: [libreoffice-website] LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

Le 2011-06-21 07:14, Italo Vignoli a écrit :
> On 6/20/11 1:59 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
>
> > Could you point me to any page with the results of these discussions. I
> > seem to have missed it somehow.
>
> We had a lot of face to face and phone discussions before the launch, 
> but you won't find any trace of them (other than the memory of each 
> participant).
>
> Also, discussions with FSF were mostly by private email and phone, and 
> were supposed to clarify our position vs proprietary extensions before 
> FSF statement (we explained why we double license LGPLv3+ and MPL, as 
> MPL is not the preferred FSF license).
>
> By the way, we use the MPL license to suit the needs of companies like 
> IBM who want to build a proprietary version of the software, although 
> US corporations have a preference for Apache License which it is not 
> copyleft (MPL is defined as weak copyleft).
Thanks for the explanation. I think it would be nice to have our 
statement on the matter published somewhere on our website.

As for the comment of  "although US corporations have a preference for 
Apache License which it is not copyleft (MPL is defined as weak 
copyleft)", IMO it's more of a cultural thing. We, in North America, are 
used to seeing "big business" and hearing of "for-profit" philosophies 
and little of "opensource" philosophy. I remember as early as the last 
year and a half of hearing people say at school board IT meetings that 
installing Linux on boxes was "considered illegal if MSWindows are not 
installed" and my countering with the fact that I was a whitebox dealer 
who sold boxes with Linux installed on it and that my sales were going 
fine and were definitely not illegal, OR, also hearing from some of my 
US colleagues in the educational field that "opensource is considered 
un-American because there is no profit involved". This type of attitude 
are chronicled in articles such as this: 
[http://www.serverwatch.com/trends/article.php/3868046/Open-Source-Software-Bad-Evil-and-Un-American.htm].

This is some of the mind-set that some of us harbour in North America. 
It's organization like ours and our supporting partners that will make a 
difference in changing attitudes in North America.

BTW ... this is a neat article to read re: the spread of opensource 
software in North America: 
[http://www.serverwatch.com/trends/article.php/3868046/Open-Source-Software-Bad-Evil-and-Un-American.htm], 
which brings home the importance of having LibreOffice ready for 
large-scale installations. We need to make our LibreOffice more 
attractive by providing administrative tools to ease large-scale 
installation as well as administrative tools for managing installation 
preferences remotely.

Cheers,

Marc

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Marc Paré
http://www.parEntreprise.com


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