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Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation

Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation

Posted Jun 7, 2011 1:47 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation by Wol
Parent article: Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation

if code is contributed to LO under LGPL and MPL without copyright assignment, who has the right to put it under the apache2 license? Oracle sure doesn't (as they don't have the copyright)

LO already contains a lot of code that is not Oracle's to relicense


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