OpenOffice.org and contributor agreements
OpenOffice.org and contributor agreements
[Front] Posted May 20, 2011 21:13 UTC (Fri) by webmink
As part of an interview in LWN, Mark Shuttleworth is quoted as wanting the community to view the use of contribution licensing agreements (CLAs) as a necessary prerequisite for open source growth and the refusal by others to donate their work under them as a barrier to commercial success. He implies that the use of a CLA by Sun for OpenOffice.org was a good thing. Mark is also quoted accusing The Document Foundation (TDF) of somehow destroying OpenOffice.org (OO.o) because of its decision to fork rather than contribute changes upstream under the CLA. But guest author Simon Phipps suggests a different view of both matters.