[marketing-dev] Re: OpenOffice.org to become an Apache Foundation Incubator Project

On Jun 1, 2011, at 1:23 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:

> Hi all,
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> On 2011-06-01, at 11:56 , Peter Junge wrote:
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>> Hi anyone,
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>> have you already been reading the news today:
>> http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/statements-on-openofficeorg-cont=
ribution-to-apache-nasdaq-orcl-1521400.htm
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>> No comments from my side so far, as I found it right before getting to b=
ed.
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> There is little at this point to say, and the fact that there is little a=
t this point to say, and that it remains mysterious, is, I sincerely hope, =
not a sign of things to come but of things that were.=20
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> I therefore ask Jim Jagielski, whom I've cc'd here to this PUBLIC list (j=
im: warning!!)=97to comment on this, either to me privately, or publicly: h=
is choice.
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> The questions I have:
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> * Who owns copyright and trademark now?

Oracle still owns copyright to whatever code they previously
held copyright to. The ASF does not require copyright assignment.
Oracle donated all the code they have copyright to to the
ASF via our standard Software Grant:

	http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt

Under the same vehicle Oracle also:

   "...hereby disclaims any and all continuing interest in the trademark Op=
enOffice
    for the software, and assigns those trademarks and their associated goo=
dwill to
    the Foundation along with this license grant to the Software."

> * Who will employ the core developers?=20

Their employers...=20

> * Why wasn't the OpenOffice.org leadership and community involved in the =
discussions?

The ASF is reaching out to them now... Beforehand, the ASF was
not involved in the discussions w/i Oracle regarding its
decisions.

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