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Weir: Where did the time go?Weir: Where did the time go?Posted Mar 14, 2012 20:50 UTC (Wed) by Wol (guest, #4433)In reply to: Weir: Where did the time go? by Zizzle Parent article: Weir: Where did the time go?
Well, actually, what you're describing is far from reality ...
Firstly there is next to no copyleft code in OpenOffice to be got rid of. The reality is most of the code was written by Sun - outside contributions weren't welcome, so the motives you ascribe to Rob/IBM are utterly pointless.
And secondly, if you do submit a copyleft patch to LO, chances are it'll be rejected on licencing grounds. The primary LO licence is not the (L)GPL but the MPL. Which is a pretty weak copyleft, merely saying that if you can keep your changes in a separate source file, then you don't have to release those, but any source files you do change have to be released.
I'm not impressed with Rob's LO-bashing, I admit, but if you want to do some Rob-bashing it helps if you don't embarass yourself with your lack of knowledge of LO.
Cheers,
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Weir: Where did the time go? Posted Mar 15, 2012 0:12 UTC (Thu) by Zizzle (guest, #67739) [Link]
> Well, actually, what you're describing is far from reality ...
[citation needed]
Let's see.
> Firstly there is next to no copyleft code in OpenOffice to be got rid of.
But the article says:
> Take a look at the box called "Removal of copyleft".
So what they removing?
Surely they too must be "far from reality"... they should have got a reality lesson from the great Wol first who would have told them there is no copyleft in OOo and they could have avoided that work.
> And secondly, if you do submit a copyleft patch to LO, chances are it'll be rejected on licencing grounds.
[citation needed]
I guess LibreOffice themselves must be "far from reality" too...
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/License_Policy
> If you want to license your code under a different license as well please discuss it on the development list first. If you really must then:
Guess what, there is already GPL code in LO.
The standard LO licence is LGPL/MPL.
But it seems Mozilla is also "far from reality" also.
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/FAQ.html
> Q1: What is the Mozilla Public License?
My patches have been under LGPL/MPL which most people in my "far from reality" consider copyleft. They made it into the LibreOffice 3.5 release. I suspect it's a feature that OOo won't have any time soon - especially considering it was in their bug tracker untouched for 6 years and now they wont touch anything that isn't apache licenced.
But hey, I guess that's just me being "far from reality".
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