Re: Thank you Michael, but no, thank you...

A great posting by Charles H. Shulz on Groklaw digs deeper on the issue of forking code. I especially love these comments, but recommend you read the entire article:

• OpenOffice.org *is* released under the LGPL
• Sun should be credited with having been extremely reasonable in regard of the license
• ... really strange is that Kohei Yoshida , a respected contributor of OpenOffice.org signed the JCA when he was an independent developer, got then hired by Novell, and then refused to contribute code under the JCA
• The future looks uncommonly bright for OpenOffice.org these days.

Finally I think the summary really does hit the nail on the head "[OpenOffice]...without Sun, it would be nothing. Yet without the community, it would still be just one out of many other corporate internal projects."

We at Sun are proud of initially bringing OpenOffice to market, proud that we opensourced the project and continue to invest and promote it. Having said that we are very mindful of the responsibility bestowed on us to ensure the community continues to thrive and grow, hopefully beyond our wildest imagination. We have no desire to turn this into a "corporate internal project." Come join the community at OpenOffice.org and be part of the future.

Posted at 03:31PM Oct 09, 2007 by Mark Herring in OpenOffice  |  Comments[0]  |  | |