text_combined: louis suarezpotts deidnbiduwqfawbcsuncom interesting news summary license code changing early lgpl v 21 30 effective beta openofficeorg 30 actual date beta finalized joint copyright assignment form jca replaced sun microsystems inc contributor agreement sca change effective immediately announcement background late last year discussion implications ratification gplv3 lgplv3 openofficeorg among openofficeorg project leads leads generally favour adopting updated licenses outcome discussions sun changing license openofficeorg codebase flexible protective lgpl v3 0 effective beta openofficeorg 30 due later year change supported openofficeorg community council move forward natural evolutionary step take codebase using license fsf license family drafting process license involved substantial foss community input benefit work particular new license includes additional protections community software patents openofficeorg continue using lgpl minimize disruption community expanding ecosystem evolved around lgpl codebase lgpl grants flexibility broad range users developers still ensuring modifications code contributed back community new license major reason exchange joint copyright assignmentjca sun contributor agreementsca 1 openofficeorg addendum accommodates developers core ooo codebase noncore extensions different contribution models change fact contributions product packaged openofficeorg require sca addendum enables openofficeorg easily host source code extensions thus promotes collaboration interested parties respective extension familiar environment similar flexibility documentation creation related contribution guidelines progress large number gpllgpl projects already moved v3 2 openofficeorg next major release right time change preparations start immediately publish openofficeorg 30 beta lgplv3 sca including openofficeorg addendum published openofficeorg site together faq pointer sun sca faq 3 comes effect announcement see also faq licensing 4 copy announcement found httpwwwopenofficeorglicensesnewlicense2008html regards louis suarezpotts community manager openofficeorg sun microsystems inc 0 httpwwwfsforglicensinglicenseslgplhtml 1 httpwwwopenofficeorglicensesscapdf 2 httpgpl3palamidacom8080indexjsp 3 httpwwwsuncomsoftwareopensourcecontributor_agreementjsp 4 httpwwwopenofficeorgfaqsfaqlicensinghtml unsubscribe email fijoknrarfkwlijwfijopenofficeorg additional commands email ypcqyhropijbopenofficeorg wed 06 aug 2008 020131 0500 oooannounce new license contributor agreement