On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Simon Brouwer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Op 6-6-2011 10:38, Simos Xenitellis schreef:
>>
>> Let's read the document you cite,
>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html
>>
>> A permissive license is recommended/suggested in two cases, when
>> a. «very small projects»
>> b. «projects that implement free standards that are competing against
>> proprietary standards,
>> such as Ogg Vorbis (which competes against MP3 audio) and WebM (which
>> competes against MPEG-4 video)»
>>
>> I cannot fit OpenOffice in any of these criteria.
>
> Doesn't OpenOffice.org implement the free standard ODF, which is competing
> against the MS Office "standard" file formats?
>

Currently OOo is a big piece of software that among many things can
read/write ODF documents. If OOo was to be simplified into an ODF
(non-GUI) component, reusable in many other applications, then the FSF
suggestion is being read properly.

Simos

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