donaldupre . wrote:
What does it take to buy back OpenOffice from Apache? I'm sure there are commercial entities that will be happy to develop it.
Those entities can ask their employees to contribute to OpenOffice, and help shape the project with their contributions. This addresses all items in your list (then some of them are debatable, but I'm not going to discuss them in detail).
The license allows companies to create derivative products and choose distribution terms for those, as Damjan noted. The trademark policy regulates how a company can use the "OpenOffice" trademark in derivatives. All information you need is available on, or from, the http://openoffice.apache.org/ website.
I'll just note that none of the actions you list is incompatible with Apache: the company contributes their employees' time to the project and profits by selling support, or additional services, or customized versions. This is very common and successful in other Apache projects. If you have contacts with interested companies, just ask them to come to this list and start contributing!
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