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

Hi Berhard, all.

Bernhard Dippold wrote:
> Hi Simon, all,
>
> Please make sure that Apache Software Foundation gets notice about the
> large area of non-coding community in our projects.
>
> As far as I know, their meritocratic system is only based on code
> contribution, so none of the other community members will be able to
> become part of the OpenOffice Apache project or the Apache community, if
> they don't change the way they handle contributions.
>
> So if you start to be involved in their decision making process, please
> describe them the broadness of our community.

Start here.. http://community.apache.org/contributors/index.html .. 
Like OOo there is no need to worry anyone can be a contributor.

> While Rob Weir (IBM) seems to have an interest in dividing the community
> in a Apache based coding community and a different supporting one
> (outside Apache, no mention about their infrastructure), I don't think
> that this should be the way to go.
>
> The question of giving up LGPL for the Apache license might be a
> marketing topic too:
>
> As this would allow companies to just take the code and include their
> patches in their own commercial product only, support of the common code
> basis might be reduced in future.

I see no change as this is seems to be the way it has worked under 
Sun/Oracle.  By special agreement IBM has not returned code to OOo upstream.

> ... Especially as open source enthusiastic developers (mostly
> independent or related to Linux distributions) have told us over and
> over again that they feel exploited by such commercial interests without
> getting something back...
>
> Best regards
>
> Bernhard

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