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Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software FoundationOracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software FoundationPosted Jun 2, 2011 17:11 UTC (Thu) by DOT (subscriber, #58786)In reply to: Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation by rahvin Parent article: Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation
Considering that LibreOffice already has a working infrastructure, community, a lot of new code, and as you said an advantage in licensing, why wouldn't the ASF simply go and join the TDF?
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Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation Posted Jun 2, 2011 18:22 UTC (Thu) by rahvin (subscriber, #16953) [Link]
I wonder if they would (IMO the ASF would rather see an apache license rather than a GPL license), but that would be my preferred outcome for ASF to accept then hand the whole thing over to TDF. Do you think the ASF would be willing to donate an entire project to a group that will only GPL license?
Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation Posted Jun 3, 2011 0:29 UTC (Fri) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]
The TDF/LO is *NOT* "only GPL licence".
The preferred licence is MPL which is, from my non-lawyer perspective, apparently a very weak copyleft licence.
The only reason LO is (at present) an LGPL3-only project, is because that is licence on the code they forked from Oracle. What effect any licence change from Oracle's LGPL3 to ASL will have, I don't know, but if ASL and MPL are compatible then there'll probably be a very rapid convergence - in both directions - between OO and LO.
Cheers,
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