On 21 janv. 08, at 23:51, weekendadventure wrote:
StarOffice uses OOo as a "library" and supposedly adds only "coating"
to it. Hence it does not have to release its proprietary code.

What do you mean by "coating"?

I mean that I think StarOffice adds things (like other librairies, or templates or dictionaries).

But now that I think about it, since SUN holds the copyright to the code it would be actually possible for SUN to make modifications to the code without releasing it and that may well happen in StarOffice.

So, anyway, StarOffice/OpenOffice are a specific pair because they are fully "owned" by SUN. While anything else is not.

Sorry for being unclear in the first reply.



Jean-Christophe Helary

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