Oracle and Apache

Posted Aug 20, 2015 13:37 UTC (Thu) by jimjag (guest, #84477)
In reply to: Oracle and Apache by BrucePerens
Parent article: Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team

And it's disingenuous to accuse GPL participants of not giving back because they used the GPL, when they might have been more willing to use the Apache license had you not presented them with an undesired fork and a great deal of hostility.

The hostility was there way before Apache got involved.

I submit that if TDF had existed as a legal entity and if they had been willing to have LO under ALv2 (or some other permissive license) that Oracle would have donated it to them.

I will go further. If the conditions of the above had been true, and Oracle had not donated it to the TDF, then the ASF would not have accepted it. I and others would have strongly rejected any such proposal.