Just to add to this. Libre Office is a fork of OpenOffice.org. It was created
in result of Oracles inaction on what was going to happen with
OpenOffice.org. Under SUN OpenOffice.org was developed and there was no
community involvement. SUN didn't work with the community even though it was
developed largely under a free software license. This angered many.
As a result Go-oo was created and used for a while. It combined patches from
third parties.
It became obsoled by the creation of Libre Office (which was the result of
the inaction by Oracle on what was going to happen to OpenOffice.org).
Ultimately Libre Office became the dominate project and after that Oracle
handed the copyright over to the Apache foundation- or at least everything
around it. It isn't clear if Oracle actually has copyright on it. But the
code is under an appropriate license mostly.
THe Go-oo fork and the new Libre Office form don't include the java
components that OpenOffice.org use to have in them. I believe this is now
gone from the OpenOffice.org code with the release of the Apache version.
I know it is not in Go-oo or the newer Libre Office replacement.
Long story short... Libre Office is the dominant project and OpenOffice.org
may end up an abandoned project. I'm not sure who/or if anybody is actively
working on it. Somehow I doubt Oracle is and I think IBM had worked with SUN
on development a bit. They had like 25 developers working on it if I recall
correctly. Tho IBM developers may be working on the Libre Office version now
given that it dominates.
However keep in mind IBM has its own version of the code so I'm not entirely
sure what non-free parts they may have/or work on vs what gets donated back
to the Libre Office or OpenOffice.org codebase.
