On 25.09.2013 20:31, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote:
NeoOffice, based on LibreOffice and licensed GPL, is being sold on Apple's App Store for 9.99 USD. This is not a problem; the GPL permits that. The source is also freely available and can be compiled; support, too, is available.
I find it interesting that in this case Apple acts as the redistributor of GPL material as the GPL has some redistribution clauses that other companies with significant intellectual property portfolios would be much more cautious about.
I tried compiling it and discovered I'd done something wrong. Shrug. So I bought the binaries and tested it. It seemed pretty much like it had been before, quite nice and also stable. I have not discovered bugs yet, but I've also not tested it sufficiently. I'd be curious to hear of others' opinions on it. NeoOffice has two very talented developers, one Ed Peterlin, was part of the great team that reinitiated the Mac OS X port for OOo, back in 2003-5, taking over from Sun's abandoned effort. (Sun then took it up, after some pressure.)
They'd be very welcome to join the Apache OpenOffice project. As they currently can take all of AOO's and LO's stuff and then focus on the Mac aspects they can explore territory that the other projects haven't invested enough resources in yet.
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