Open Office licensing

[Kyle Winkler]

 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.

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.

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:58 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Oracle is apparently going to put Open Office under the Apache Foundation
> and their license.  Not the GPL as LibreOffice.
>
> <http://www.itworld.com/software/170521/big-winner-apache-openofficeorg>
>
> This is quite political, I think.  The most interesting part is in the
> long comment posted today by Marbux.
>
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