From owner-freebsd-openoffice@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 4 18:37:27 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-openoffice@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F40A51065670 for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2011 18:37:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from giffunip@tutopia.com) Received: from tutopia.com (mail09mass.ifxnetworks.com [190.60.24.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA4B78FC18 for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2011 18:37:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 29710 invoked from network); 4 Jun 2011 18:10:46 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on mail09mass.ifxnetworks.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=7.0 tests=RDNS_NONE autolearn=disabled version=3.2.5 Received: from unknown (HELO webmail.tutopia.com) ([190.61.128.23]) (envelope-sender ) by mail09mass.ifxnetworks.com (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 4 Jun 2011 18:10:46 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:10:46 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni To: Message-ID: X-Sender: giffunip@tutopia.com User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.4.2 Cc: Subject: An Invitation to Apache OpenOffice X-BeenThere: freebsd-openoffice@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting OpenOffice to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 18:37:27 -0000 Hello guys; As announced in several media, Openoffice will be starting the process to become an Apache Project. This means the license will now be Apache 2.0, which is a great step for those of us that think that software freedom doesn't necessarily mean copyleft, but it also means the process of contributing to the project will be much more transparent and cleaner now. While the libreoffice guys plan to continue to work on their fork and I have no intentions to demerit their work, it seems like the best way to keep our changes in sync with both groups would be to contribute them directly to Apache Openoffice. For the time being I wanted to share a link to IBM's Rob Weir blog that explains better how we could contribute to this effort: http://www.robweir.com/blog/ or just go here http://goo.gl/fb/lqobJ While here, let me also thank you guys for keeping the OO package working so well on FreeBSD! Pedro.