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From: "Allen Pulsifer" <pulsifer@openoffice.org>
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Subject: RE: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the
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Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 14:30:25 -0400
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>>> =A0Which is why I raised the question regarding TDF's ability to=20
>>> relicense all of the contributions it has received.
>>
>> As I understand it Noel, TDF accepts contributions under open source=20
>> licenses alone and unlike ASF does not require a contributor license=20
>> agreement, so is unable to relicense the last 8 months of work under=20
>> any license incompatible with the ones used by those contributions.

> Unable is a strong word. =A0I given that we are talking about =
historically
recent contributions,
> I would think that it would be possible to identify and reach out to =
those
who made these
> contributions. =A0These people, after all, DO hold the copyrights.

In fact, as I pointed out earlier, about 75% to 90% of the LIbreOffice
contributions have been made by the employees of a handful of companies,
primarily Linux distributors such as Novell, Red Hat and Canonical.  So =
in
fact, if those companies decided to join in an Apache Licensed effort, =
this
issue would be largely addressed.


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