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> From: toki <toki.kantoor@gmail.com>
> To: general@incubator.apache.org
> Sent: Mon, June 6, 2011 6:25:30 AM
> Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal
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> On 06/06/2011 08:02, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
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> > AIUI the TDF uses the LGPL. Like the Apache License (AL), the LGPL
> > also allows proprietary software to be built on top. So, why would you
> > break your rule for a TDF project but not an ASF one?
>
> It is much easier to convert Apache licensed code to closed source,
> proprietary software, than it is to convert LGPL licensed code to closed
> source, proprietary software.
>
> Given the history of OOo, instead of 100 commercial vendors of the
> product, pointing to OOo for support, but not providing source code, and
> not telling anybody what code changes were made, under the Apache
> License you'll have 1,000 such vendors.
Because Apache will own the brand, we can make access to the brand
contingent on things like non-abuse of our OOo forums, among other
things.
Carrots and sticks.
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