Plus, by getting involved in the LibreOffice/OpenOffice war, Apache is running a risk.īut the Apache people I know are all fiercely proud of their open, inclusive and transparent operation – so there is no particular reason for them to reject an application for inclusion as an incubated project. Somehow the Eclipse Foundation feels like it might have been a better match. The Apache Foundation doesn’t have any irons in the desktop software fire, so this is a departure for them. This includes C++ programmers (on Linux, Mac and Windows), QA (also on all platforms), help/documentation, UI/UCD, translation/globalization, accessibility, install, etc.” What’s in it for Apache? Rob Weir talks about this: “In particular, we need to attract a wide variety of project specialists. Without Oracle or the LibreOffice supporters, there will be a void to fill. However, some of the criteria for membership will require IBM to put significant resources into developer and community recruitment, and development.
IBM can continue to develop Symphony, with a licence it’s happy with. They lose any revenues involved, but apparently they were resigned to losing those anyway. This is easy – Oracle off-loads, for which it has no further use, without damaging its relationship with IBM and other commercial OOo partners. It will be interesting to see how things evolve on this front in the coming months.
The Apache incubation process docs have all the info.Īmong the items that need to be checked off before graduates to top-level project is a diverse developer base, and non-dependence on one company for support. In addition, there is a commitment to certain social norms, and to use the infrastructure provided by the Apache project. The copyright holder(s) – in this case Oracle must agree to release the code under the Apache Public Licence. The most obvious one will be a licence change. What does it mean for ?Īpache project status brings with it a number of prerequisites which will affect the way the project runs pretty profoundly. The news surprised me, and made me think about what’s in it for each of the parties involved. to Apache: What does it mean? J4:10 pm Dave Neary freesoftware, GeneralĪs many have probably heard, Oracle and IBM jointly proposed that become an Apache project this week.
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