Weir: Where did the time go?

[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:
> (a) Please choose a license that
> (i) is already used for code in LibreOffice (so is already in <readlicence.oo/txt/licence.txt>)

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?
> The MPL is a simple copyleft 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".