On 05.10.2011 12:23, Michael Meeks wrote: > Hi Michael. > > On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 11:55 +0200, Michael Stahl wrote: >> is there a plan to integrate the outstanding OOo CWSes into LibO? > > We are considering how best to do this.
>> - calc67 >> - calc68 > > As a general rule we're very nervous of non-expert merging calc CWS' > they need careful review and preferably approval by Kohei & team. i believe the same is true for the writer :) we'd need to somehow distribute the integrated changes to the most knowledgeable (in some area) developers. that's why i thought something like gerrit would be helpful. >> i guess we should take a look and merge anything looking useful into >> master, then see what breaks :) > > An unthinking merge is (I think) not helpful. For licensing reasons, we > would want to re-use an Apache merge, yet their licensing situation is > not that clear: it appears they are still distributing and creating > LGPLv3-only licensed code. i don't see a licensing problem here: if the code is already integrated at Apache then presumably it will be re-licensed to AL2 at some point; it is all owned by Oracle anyway. right now it is LGPLv3 only, but in that respect it is no different from the millions of lines of currently LGPLv3-only Oracle-owned code we already have. so, this is different from accepting a LGPLv3-only patch by a random contributor, because in that case we cannot assume that it will be re-licensed, but with stuff that's already integrated at AOOo i think we can. > So - in general, I'd really prefer not to try to tackle this now, > though it'd be good to discuss it at some stage. > > Thanks, > > Michael. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
