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Relicensing and rebasing LibreOffice

Relicensing and rebasing LibreOffice

Posted May 30, 2012 0:02 UTC (Wed) by Tester (subscriber, #40675)
In reply to: Relicensing and rebasing LibreOffice by jospoortvliet
Parent article: Relicensing and rebasing LibreOffice

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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