On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 12:43:50PM +0100, Simon Phipps wrote:
>
> On 4 Jun 2011, at 12:19, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> wrote:
> >
> >>
> > LibreOffice complements anything we do here at Apache to those who
> > agree with the license terms under which LibreOffice is made
> > available. Until or unless we resolve that issue, I feel that the
> > statement above would need to be both qualified in this manner and
> > extended to enumerate other complements that might apply in other
> > situations.
>
> I disagree. LO has a focus on the binary deliverables and the consumer destinations they
reach that is perfectly complementary to the developer focus of Apache. This complementarity
is entirely unrelated to licensing.
>
Agreed, but that assumes that LO is "just" a build/deliverables/consumer
focused entity, and doesn't have a developer interest as well. As long
as they still do, then licensing is important.
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