On 9 February 2015 at 08:28, Max Semenik maxsem.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
OpenOffice's woes are unrelated to its license, it was already dead by forking when Oracle transferred it to Apache, facilitating a change from GPL+proprietary CLA to the Apache license.
Indeed, but they touted the mythical attractiveness of a permissive license over the bondage of copyleft. And it didn't work that way at all in practice.
Again: data, rather than anecdote or surmise? As far as I can tell, the claim that permissive attracts more contributions than copyleft is entirely a myth.
- d.