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Priority of cleaning up unclear legal statusPriority of cleaning up unclear legal statusPosted Jan 18, 2013 21:07 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)In reply to: Priority of cleaning up unclear legal status by rcweir Parent article: A discordant symphony
> ongoing obligation. We would need to provide patches and do CVE reporting on discovered security flaws. We would need to track bugs. We would need to respond to user and developer queries. We would need to maintain the code and periodically come out with new releases.
I'm guessing that there is probably legitimate disagreement on that point, there are many instances of code dumps where a dead project is released without any obligation for ongoing maintenance. The quicker that is done the quicker that others can pick over the corpse for juicy tidbits.
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Priority of cleaning up unclear legal status Posted Jan 18, 2013 21:22 UTC (Fri) by rcweir (subscriber, #48888) [Link]
Well, I know there were fantasies expressed in some quarters, that Apache would just take the OpenOffice.org code from Oracle, slap an Apache license on it, and hand it over, along with trademarks, website, etc., to LibreOffice. Those fantasies have gone unfulfilled.
It would probably be very unsatisfying to develop new fantasies that Apache will do this for the Symphony contribution. The plan of record, as decided by the community, is to merge enhancements from Symphony into OpenOffice and release this code as part of Apache OpenOffice 4.0.
Remember, Symphony is not an entirely different code base. It is a fork of OpenOffice.org. We're just rejoining the codebases and ending the fork.
If LibreOffice is truly interested in having "juicy tidbits" from it, then it is in their best interest for us to merge the code into Apache OpenOffice, where they can cherry pick from it, just like their ongoing harvesting of features from OpenOffice 3.4.1. It will be much easier for them to have one code base to sync from, then deal with two.
Congratulations! [was: priority of cleaning up unclear legal status] Posted Jan 18, 2013 21:33 UTC (Fri) by jubal (subscriber, #67202) [Link]
I have to admit, you're an incredible PR asset to both the Libre Office and The Document Foundation, Mr. Weir.
Congratulations! [was: priority of cleaning up unclear legal status] Posted Jan 18, 2013 21:42 UTC (Fri) by rcweir (subscriber, #48888) [Link]
Congratulations! [was: priority of cleaning up unclear legal status] Posted Jan 18, 2013 21:54 UTC (Fri) by jubal (subscriber, #67202) [Link]
My apologies, no more feeding trolls for me today!
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