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IBM to contribute Symphony to OpenOffice.orgIBM to contribute Symphony to OpenOffice.orgPosted Jul 15, 2011 22:00 UTC (Fri) by xtifr (subscriber, #143)In reply to: IBM to contribute Symphony to OpenOffice.org by jamesh Parent article: IBM to contribute Symphony to OpenOffice.org I can't imagine why they'd think the GPL would hinder them in any way. They've shown themselves to be quite intelligent about copyleft in the past, and are fully supportive. As for stripping the LGPL parts--OOo is currently under the Apache license, and they have no guarantee that anyone will modify it to work with LO, so stripping the incompatible-with-Apache parts simply helps keep their options open. This way it can merge with OOo if other options don't play out.
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IBM to contribute Symphony to OpenOffice.org Posted Jul 18, 2011 11:32 UTC (Mon) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]
Symphony is managed by Java developpers. Most big corp Java people are hopelessly prejudiced against anything GNU-ish, after years of SUN "GNU is evil, do not touch Linux" propaganda (the prejudice is so deep SUN never dared pushing OpenJDK even after choosing to copyleft it, for fear of alienating partners and its own workforce)
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