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LPC: Michael Meeks on LibreOffice and code ownershipLPC: Michael Meeks on LibreOffice and code ownershipPosted Nov 9, 2010 16:46 UTC (Tue) by Frej (subscriber, #4165)Parent article: LPC: Michael Meeks on LibreOffice and code ownership
I do think highly of Meeks. But it's still wrong to stir up uncertainty and fear with some sort of marketing campaign from some unnamed company, calling your boss!
I can't think of a company with any motive to do so, across open source projects? What's the gain? Or is he just talking about the openoffice project, because then it's obvious ;).
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LPC: Michael Meeks on LibreOffice and code ownership Posted Nov 9, 2010 17:32 UTC (Tue) by AlexHudson (subscriber, #41828) [Link]
Without wanting to put words in his mouth, I would have thought he had in mind the likes of Project Harmony. Some people believe standardised contracts for contribution are required to drive corporate involvement in "unsexy" open source projects.
LPC: Michael Meeks on LibreOffice and code ownership Posted Nov 26, 2010 18:26 UTC (Fri) by phython (subscriber, #3278) [Link]
Which project harmony? The java libraries or the old qt replacement or a different one?
LPC: Michael Meeks on LibreOffice and code ownership Posted Nov 26, 2010 18:44 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
LPC: Michael Meeks on LibreOffice and code ownership Posted Nov 9, 2010 20:11 UTC (Tue) by msnitzer (subscriber, #57232) [Link] Please see: Canonical's contributor agreement (aka comprehensive copyright assignment). What could be a better first step toward making amazing contributions to Ubuntu!? ;)
LPC: Michael Meeks on LibreOffice and code ownership Posted Nov 9, 2010 20:44 UTC (Tue) by daglwn (subscriber, #65432) [Link]
Apple effectively requires copyright assignment for the LLVM/Clang suite, though no one really follows it. Since the license is BSD-ish, there's no real practical difference anyway. Apple does have a rather aggressive campaign against GPLv3.
LPC: Michael Meeks on LibreOffice and code ownership Posted Nov 9, 2010 22:30 UTC (Tue) by Hanno (guest, #41730) [Link]
Prior to panicking, I'd like to know more details about this unnamed threat, as well.
LPC: Michael Meeks on LibreOffice and code ownership Posted Nov 27, 2010 17:16 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
As said a little up in this thread: Canonical's Harmony comes to mind. But indeed the history of OpenOffice.org itself is also telling.
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