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Relicensing and rebasing LibreOffice

Relicensing and rebasing LibreOffice

Posted May 29, 2012 7:52 UTC (Tue) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870)
In reply to: Relicensing and rebasing LibreOffice by simosx
Parent article: Relicensing and rebasing LibreOffice

> The question is rather, what companies would be interested to contribute to LibreOffice, and would rather see an MPL-licensed codebased, compared to the current LGPL.

AFAIK, LibO still hasn't given up hope that IBM might want to join in on the fun, and give them the opportunity to still ship their sekr3t-sauce plugins with symphony. AFAIK, that was (one of the) main motivations to go with the MPL in the first place.


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