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Relicensing and rebasing LibreOffice

Relicensing and rebasing LibreOffice

Posted May 29, 2012 7:56 UTC (Tue) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870)
In reply to: Relicensing and rebasing LibreOffice by cmccabe
Parent article: Relicensing and rebasing LibreOffice

> [flame suit on]
> If the decision has been made to ditch the GPL

/me peels the flame suit off cmccabe.

No need for it, the GPL was never part of the question, as it has been LGPL-licensed by Oracle all the time, it was never GPL licensed. :-)

And a weak-copyleft was included from my non-official observer point of view, to allow ISV such as IBM to become happy with a code base that they can ship proprietary plugins for. Seems that has not been sufficient incentive :-).


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