Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation

Posted Jun 1, 2011 21:17 UTC (Wed) by shmget (guest, #58347)
In reply to: Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation by kragil
Parent article: Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation

"Is that really true? I think most of the LGPL authors are still alive and can be asked to relicense."

They can be asked, but very very unlikely to agree to it.
after-all the copyright assignment clause(which negate the LGPL for the assignee, here Sun then Oracle, which where free to re-license all that GPL code under the license of their choice... and Oracle is doing just that once more) was a big motivation for the fork of libreoffice to start with, and why most of the code we are talking about was maintained prior to that as a collection of patches used to build GO-OO.

So, while technically the Apache CLA does not 'technically' include a copyright assignment, the end result is the same: the lost of the copy-left protection.

I can't imagine that people that where against the former will agree to the later...