Moving to LGPL v3 was discussed on the dev@list and on the lead@list for some time, without any violent will to change from LGPL to GPL. I remember some discussion that have took place in the past where some developers were really willing that OOo become GPL. Beside the difficulty because there is some third party libraries that need this specifical licence, I don't think it will be a good move because of the nature of our product. Concerning the SCA, I'm waiting for the content of the guidelines to make my opinion. Not on its necessity, there is no discussion here, but on its coverage. I'm happy that either documentation and extensions are out of the scope.

But I'm really concerned by localization. It's a very important part of OOo, not only the product, but the community. It has really increased the diversity and the contribution to the community and I would not like to see the new contributor agreement to restrain this participation. There is a point that is not clear for me, it is said that all what is constituting the core code base should be under SCA, but L10n is not part of the core code base, it is part of the binaries that's true however. So now, what if in Pootle, somebody makes a suggestion for one string or two, what if we want to share our strings with Gnome or Gnumeric communities? No way or how would it be possible?

All those discussions about contributions inside the AB, the CC or the community, lead me again to a fact that we need to make our community contributors more visible. We should be able to render who is contributing in which part of the project, on svn (because we will also move very soon on this scm) of course, but also on the other parts, like marketing, art, l10n, QA, doc, ux. We know how much work is needed to deliver a release, but we also need to know who is doing the work :)