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 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
