Re: [dev] EducOOo donated code for ARM Linux port

Rene Engelhard <[email protected]> Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:32:12 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.porting
Organization OpenOffice.org
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:02:44AM -0700, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> > "EducOOo donated code for ARM Linux port" makes it sound you did the =
port.
>=20
> Me, I didn't understand if EducOOo is the subject or object here... (An=
d with issuezilla being down, I couldn't check the link either.) Was it d=
onated to EducOOo, or did EducOOo donate it to somebody else? And what do=
es "donate" mean, exactly, in the context of Open Source software? Or is =
this not Open Source?

According to the issue they did do some arm6/armv7 optimizations and "don=
ated"
the change back (Though the patch was buggy and not-working, see my later
comments) but the comment made it look that they "donated (the) code for
ARM Linux port". That was what I objected to.

Gr=FC=DFe/Regards,

Ren=E9