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Relicensing and rebasing LibreOfficeRelicensing and rebasing LibreOfficePosted May 29, 2012 8:00 UTC (Tue) by sdalley (subscriber, #18550)In reply to: Relicensing and rebasing LibreOffice by cmccabe Parent article: Relicensing and rebasing LibreOffice
Hmm, very good question. I was wondering the same thing.
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Relicensing and rebasing LibreOffice Posted May 29, 2012 15:06 UTC (Tue) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
Reading the article I thought it has something to do with the LO guys wanting to make sure LO has a copyleft license and APL being just a tad to comforting for those not fond of copyleft... But I have no idea of the fine details of the differences between MPL and APL so I might be all wrong :D
Relicensing and rebasing LibreOffice Posted May 30, 2012 0:02 UTC (Wed) by Tester (subscriber, #40675) [Link]
The MPL is in many ways functionally equivalent to the LGPL, it is a weak copyleft license. So it is very unlike the Apache license. The main differences is that the MPL applies per file or source code, and I don't think there is any provision to allow re-linking, while the LGPL forces distributors to allow replacing a LGPL bit of code with a modified version downstream.
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