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Sun Offers To Relax OpenOffice.org License
An anonymous reader writes "This article at The Register says Sun has offered to relax licensing terms for contributers' code. "The moves should go some way towards muting criticism from the OpenOffice.org community that Sun was treating members as free labour and nothing else, and taking them at face value...""
Contrast that press release with this recent statement by Bill Joy:
Joy said the SCSL, which he helped develop to cover Java and several
other Sun software technologies, "fixed the flaws in the open-source
licensing" by providing a better foundation for profiting off the
software. The SCSL permits others to see and modify source code,
but gives Sun the authority to accept or reject those changes. Sun
also has the authority to charge royalties to companies shipping
products using the software.
Let's hear it for out of context quotes! They are the key to true insight.
(not bashing the parent post at all, just wish the author of article had included the full sentence).
Anyone got the original sentence that quote came from? The fact that it says "fixed the flaws in the open source licencing" rather than "fixed the flaws in open source licencing" suggest to me there is more to that sentence...
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I think it's good journalism to acknowledge your sources, unless there is a good reason to keep them secret. It should be encouraged and rewarded here as well as at the register.
It's good seeing discussion about the issues here, you don't get that at the register.
You can't go from LGPL to GPL generally without all the involved parties permission. So I don't see your point.
that was the joke, you fuckhead