And when they mess up with OpenJDK they'll give it to the PHP community ? What about MySQL, which bureaucratic and loosely related community shall it be given in case thinks goes south in your opinion ?
Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
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Re: Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
#32Apache will likely release OOo under their permissive license allowing the code to be incorporated into proprietary software.
So why do Oracle want to make the OOo code available to Microsoft and IBM for use in their office suites? This may make it harder for OOo to compete with proprietary office software.
Re: Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
#33It sounds to me like Oracle realized that they didn't quite grok community driven open-source projects and are finally starting to donate them to good homes (Jenkins to Eclipse and OOo to Apache). All it took was for the projects to go through the hell of major forks before Oracle realized what was going on. It's probably too late to engender any kind of good will out to this though. They put both of those communitie…
Honestly, it seems like they're just pragmatically dumping projects they don't want or can't make a profit off of.
Better this way than the way most projects go.
Re: Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
#34GNOME and LibreOffice developer Michael Meeks' summary: "Apparently this is a somewhat divisive attempt by an exiting Oracle, along with IBM to sideline the existing developer community, their governance, their aspirations, membership, licensing choice (explicitly adapted to meet IBM's needs incidentally), bylaws, and so on. All of this despite a profound, frequently stated open-ness to including new (particularly la…
Have you got any more sources for the IBM part? I can't find much.
Re: Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
> That is really what needs to be done, both office suites are still almost identical. Except for licensing. LGPL prevents proprietary forks. IIRC Apache allows them. I wonder why Oracle would want to change the license (or not donate OOo directly to the Document Foundation)
grant to Apache Software Foundation usually means a grant of any patents covering the code, so that is a reason to be happy they went Apache.
Wouldn't moving to LGPLv3 be a more natural transition?
Re: Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
#36Apache will likely release OOo under their permissive license allowing the code to be incorporated into proprietary software. So why do Oracle want to make the OOo code available to Microsoft and IBM for use in their office suites? This may make it harder for OOo to compete with proprietary office software.
I think the Apache bureaucracy will kill that branch of the project and development will continue on the LibreOffice branch.