Hi Andrew, I'm not talking about private bilateral arrangements between Sun/Oracle as the copyright holder and other entities. I am talking only about the distributions and code that are made available to the public and other developers via OpenOffice.org. There the only license offered is LGPL (not counting third-party components included in the distribution and not subject to the Sun copyright nor the OpenOffice.org license).
Also, I assume that other licensing arrangements that have not expired or hit a tripwire by virtue of Oracle making the AFL 2.0 licensing to Apache will continue to be in force, though not for any updates provided at Apache (or LibreOffice, for that matter). Finally, I am not objecting to the AFL 2.0 licensing in any way. I welcome it. I think bringing OpenOffice to Apache is a great idea. I just wanted to get the facts straight with regard to some comments to the effect that LibreOffice is available under LGPL3+, MPL, and the GPL. It is just LGPL3[+] although GPL provisions are there by reference. (As far as I can tell, it is those provisions that require inclusion of information on how to obtain the source code for a distribution and both OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice are careless about that.) - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Rist [mailto:andrew.r...@oracle.com] <http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201106.mbox/%3c4deab6a2.6010...@oracle.com%3e> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 15:50 To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: OO/LO License On 6/4/2011 11:58 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: <http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201106.mbox/%3c009001cc22e9$73f6cbe0$5be463a0$@acm.org%3e> > Just to un-muddy the waters a little, it should be clear that all > distributions of OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice are under the LGPL3. > It is also the case that contributors of code to LibreOffice are > required to affirm that their contributions are under LGPLv3+/MPL The code was used under multiple licenses. While it may be true that LGPL was the only Open Source license, it was not in fact the only license. The choice of ALv2 going forward would ensure continuity for all constituencies under a single well accepted open source license, with all parties on equal footing. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
