I don't think this really matters. The non-Oracle employed community, along with all the Linux distros, are moving to Libreoffice. OpenOffice simply wasn't getting where it needed to go fast enough. We'll see if LibreOffice can fix this.<br>
<br>If the Document Foundation people really want Oracle's new Apache-Licensed contributions, they could try to move to the GPLv3, which Apache is compatable with. It would be difficult to do that with so many copyright holders, but it might work of the code is compelling enough.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:58 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org">hugh@mimosa.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Oracle is apparently going to put Open Office under the Apache Foundation<br>
and their license. Not the GPL as LibreOffice.<br>
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<<a href="http://www.itworld.com/software/170521/big-winner-apache-openofficeorg" target="_blank">http://www.itworld.com/software/170521/big-winner-apache-openofficeorg</a>><br>
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This is quite political, I think. The most interesting part is in the<br>
long comment posted today by Marbux.<br>
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