CLA Redux - The Donation of OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation

Posted by brkcmd on Saturday June 04, 2011 @09:42AM
from the groklaw.net dept.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2011060314010442

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Re:CLA Redux - The Donation of OpenOffice to the Apache Foun... by jdp23 on Saturday June 04, 2011 @11:15AM (#2619618)

An excellent and very detailed discussion of a complex issue. I can certainly see why any copyleft supporters who had contributed to OpenOffice are outraged. From the legal perspective, wasn't the GPL designed to prevent situations like this?

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Re:CLA Redux - The Donation of OpenOffice to the Apache Foun... by ubernostrum on Saturday June 04, 2011 @12:58PM (#2619826)

The GPL was designed to prevent certain things. But the GPL cannot prevent the copyright holder choosing to change the license of future versions.

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