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     <h3>Freer licensing</h3>
     <p>
-	For the code to live, grow and improve, and to encourage participation - we
-	need licensing that encourages: ie. copy-left. Simultaneously it is a travesty
-	... IBM - CDDL is ok for them - Sun, abuse of position etc. ...
-	<a href="http://council.openoffice.org/files/documents/126/4135/OOoAdvisoryBoard_01Nov2007_MeetingNotes_v4.pdf">
-	</a>
-	Sun - patent double talk (?)
-	Thus our work is wherever possible dual-licensed under LGPLv3 &amp; CDDL.
+	For the code to live, grow and improve, to encourage participation, and
+	compete with the other office suite - we need sensible licensing: ie.
+	weak copy-left. While in general we think LGPLv3 is a great &amp; sufficient
+	license for our code, <a
+	href="http://council.openoffice.org/files/documents/126/4135/OOoAdvisoryBoard_01Nov2007_MeetingNotes_v4.pdf">
+	others</a> (eg. IBM) prefer the CDDL (a weak copy-left license
+	akin to Mozilla's). Luckily dual licensing under the LGPLv3 / CDDL solves
+	this problem - and we recommend this for the majority of our code.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+	We believe that copyright assignment to a single corporate entity opens
+	the door for substantial abuse of the best-interests of the codebase
+	and developer community. As such, we prefer either eclectic ownership
+	(cf. Mozilla, GNOME, KDE, Linux), or an independent, meritocratic foundation
+	(cf. Eclipse, Apache) to own the rights. Having said that we recognise and
+	applaud Sun's technical contribution to OpenOffice and recommend
+	that small patches &amp; fixes to existing Sun code should be assigned to
+	them under the SCA, and up-streamed.
     </p>
 
     <h3>Freer politics</h3>
     <p>
 	Go-oo is a developer run meritocracy. If you want to contribute something
 	concrete: code, bug fixes, bug triage, significant translation, build-bot
-	maintainance etc. then there is a place for you to form a key part of the
+	maintainance etc. then there is a place for you as a key part of the
 	team. If instead, you want to market Go-oo, install it, talk about it -
-	that's great too, but this is not our goal: there are no formal roles in
-	the project for this work.
+	that's really excellent, but this is not our focus: there are no formal
+	roles in development to reflect this valuable work.
     </p>
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