On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 17:44 -0500, Chad Smith wrote: > On 2/19/06, Ross Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > If that's the case, then NeoOffice are free to take from OOo but, > > effectively, OOo can't take from Neo. > > > > Which is why it's stupid to have 2 projects - if everyone just worked on > NeoOffice, there wouldn't be a need for "OOo to take from Neo" - since Neo > would be the only version of OOo for Mac. The LGPL allows Sun (and others) > to make comerical versions of OOo without publishing the source. Since Sun > has no interest in making a Mac version of StarOffice (since they haven't > made one since they bought StarOffice however many years ago) they shouldn't > have a problem with their not being an "official" LGPL'ed OOo for Mac.
Well, even if Neo was LGPL there could still be two projects. The Neo web site says there are currently only TWO developers working on Neo. Perhaps they could be persuaded to change the license back to LGPL. Why they chose to go down their current path instead of joining OOo as a special project one can only speculate. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
