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Sun Offers To Relax OpenOffice.org License

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the muting-the-critcism dept.

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...""

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  1. What Bill Joy thinks about open source licensing by truth_revealed · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. Re:What Bill Joy thinks about open source licensin by zapfie · · Score: 3, Informative

    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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  3. Re:...for Contributor's own purposes ? by sister_snape · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can't go from LGPL to GPL generally without all the involved parties permission. So I don't see your point.