On 12/21/2011 08:08 PM, Mike Watson wrote:
I am considering downloading your product to avoid having to buy Microsoft
Office. But I have a question about your product. On your Features page you
said that the LGPL public license could be hacked by the user. What does that
mean? Does it mean that anyone can hack it? Please reply whenever you can.
Thank you for your time.
Libreoffice is open source software issued under the LGPL license which
means that LO must provide the source code to anyone who wants it. Thus
anyone, assuming they have the skills, can modify the code for
internal/personal use, possible inclusion into the LO base code, or
release as a derivative project or fork. If you release the code, under
the terms of the LGPL you must release the source code. Note, modified
code that LO has not included in the main code base must be released as
a fork.
LO is actually a fork of Open Office another open source project now
under the Apache Foundation. Thus the original code for LO is from OOo
and it has been modified to improve it resulting in LO.
There are numerous official, semi-official, and unofficial sources of LO.
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Jay Lozier
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