From general-return-28836-apmail-incubator-general-archive=incubator.apache.org@incubator.apache.org Fri Jun 3 17:58:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 250706C3C for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 17:58:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 51735 invoked by uid 500); 3 Jun 2011 17:58:08 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 51513 invoked by uid 500); 3 Jun 2011 17:58:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact general-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list general@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 51505 invoked by uid 99); 3 Jun 2011 17:58:08 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:58:08 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RFC_ABUSE_POST,SPF_PASS,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of gstein@gmail.com designates 209.85.212.47 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.212.47] (HELO mail-vw0-f47.google.com) (209.85.212.47) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:58:03 +0000 Received: by vws2 with SMTP id 2so1758344vws.6 for ; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:57:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wNzeQHTKtEey/KnrnLfRRbEKH46LAHizzrDnM3AgzP8=; b=t4RYRquy+ln0/zjADCkAcZ6GzwrLbG0LI03dcLNOYLZwc9l7wqT2C9u30A/LpWjEAG yry0Z6huyzKcRPFQRCinjUIqNrqZ1J1nU+opwLt0ZfU4/gwtqWN7BR137vqHcmHeZmSL rEj78wvuF+BVN5xTRNogGIwWgX48qfsNZaXCg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=CGGqtDjwEBqm8ZMNfoQY+z9RfMYHQ5KitYNUkuub6JjY0GXs1SGPOIJbiY3CwCEIDy kjz/f7BUKYGW+m+I7OnckE98Z4FbPPNVosYuFuzynLsdHmMgUN3Y3xBRxpaJSondHewC OoFV7HISb0ca9o8UL70Ujpm3qb1q5ZJ8glB1o= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.96.167 with SMTP id dt7mr1825752vdb.181.1307123862979; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:57:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.162.226 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 10:57:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 13:57:42 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community? From: Greg Stein To: general@incubator.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 13:50, Simon Phipps wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > >> =A0Which is why I raised the question regarding TDF's ability to relicen= se >> all >> of the contributions it has received. > > > As I understand it Noel, TDF accepts contributions under open source > licenses alone and unlike ASF does not require a contributor license > agreement, so is unable to relicense the last 8 months of work under any > license incompatible with the ones used by those contributions. Yeah... that is kind of a disadvantage for when they may choose to upgrade or modify their licensing. Apache's CLA process gives us flexibility in altering our license. It is not a copyright assignment (whew!), so we don't have total flexibility. But we have enough... :-) Cheers, -g --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org