On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 15:03 -0500, John W. Kennedy wrote: > Chad Smith wrote: > > Why the NeoOffice team decided to go GPL instead of LGPL is their own > > perogative - but since they have, and they are obviously doing things the > > X11 team can't - why not join them instead of fighting them? > > I think Pavel's point is that, having announced and released the > NeoOffice code under GPL, the NeoOffice team may be legally estopped > from putting the code out again under LGPL, unless they can track down > and get consent from every contributer.
That's unfortunate. I think this also means that OOo can't use code from NeoOffice unless OOo distributes it under the GPL instead of the LGPL. You can't weaken the GPL (the LGPL is a weaker version of the GPL), but you can convert the LGPL to the more restrictive GPL. If that's the case, then NeoOffice are free to take from OOo but, effectively, OOo can't take from Neo. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
