Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:59, Rafael Dominguez venccsra...@gmail.com wrote: Well im no legal expert, but from what i understand of the LGPL/MPL licenses, they still are copyleft licenses, you can merge apache code and libreoffice code, make your own version if you want, sell it etc, but if you make any derivative work, you need to make those changes available to the rest, so i dont think its possible to make a closed source office suite with libreoffice code under LGPL/MPL. A third party could do the following: 1. Core [from Apache], licensed under ALv2. 2. Features [from LO], licensed under MPL (you offer a choice, they pick MPL) 3. Proprietary stuff This package can then be sold. If they make modifications to the LO work, then they must release those changes. The third party is not obligated to release any changes to the Apache code, nor their proprietary code. Note that the LGPL operates similarly. A third party could take LO Core licensed under the LGPL and make releases, alongside proprietary code. They would need to release changes to the core, but it would still be possible *today*. The relink requirements under the LGPL get a bit annoying, but would still be possible. Cheers, -g ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
[Libreoffice] Hello! ... and lurking :-)
Hi all, I imagine you've all heard about the proposal[1] to contribute OO.o to the Apache Software Foundation. I've been involved with Apache for well over a decade, on its Board of Directors since 2001, its current Vice Chairman, the VP of Apache Subversion, and was the Chairman for five years. In short: lots of Apache experience. I've been following and participating in the discussion around the OO.o proposal on the gene...@incubator.apache.org list[1]. One of the threads of that discussion was to reach out to the people in the Document Foundation and the LibreOffice communities. So... that's this email. I'm now subscribed to discuss@df, steering-discuss@df, and libreoffice@freedesktop. I intend to lurk regarding all the regular work that you all are doing here. I'll be paying particular attention to any conversations or concerns that you may have about the OOo/Apache stuff, and will attempt to answer questions that you may have. I'm catching up on the archives now. If you have any comments, questions, or concerns, then please feel free to direct them my way (on whatever list). I'm here to listen and understand, and to offer up answers where I can. Cheers, -g [1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal [2] send mail to general-subscr...@incubator.apache.org if you would like to subscribe and directly talk about the proposal ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
Re: [Libreoffice] [tdf-discuss] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 22:06, Allen Pulsifer pulsi...@openoffice.org wrote: ... Some of you may have noticed that Greg Stein, a member of the Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors has joined this list and offered to answer any questions. Please feel free to ask him about anything that is on your mind. He would be a better person to answer, since I'm new to all this Apache stuff myself :-) Thanks for the great email, Allen, and for the shout-out. Yes, I'm here listening. Most people at Apache are not familiar with this community, and so I feel it is important to listen and lurk here to get a better understanding. Sure... I can also answer questions, and would be more than happy to do that. In any discussion threads that may pop up, about the Apache work, I'll also attempt to fill in blanks where I see them. Cheers, -g ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
