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Yeh, maybe it's justifiedYeh, maybe it's justifiedPosted Jan 29, 2013 4:13 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544)In reply to: Moving to a weaker licence by mlinksva Parent article: Schulz: The meaning of the 4.0
Yeh, maybe it's justified. AOO started a race to the bottom, so LO's position is weakened by third-parties being able to get most of the LO functionality from AOO under AL2.
The LO folk do have a focus on freedom, so "beating" AOO is a worthwhile goal. Hard one to call.
I've put a note on the libreplanet wiki:
In time, that might attract insight from others.
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Yeh, maybe it's justified Posted Jan 29, 2013 6:08 UTC (Tue) by mlinksva (subscriber, #38268) [Link]
"Beating" AOO is trivia, relative to beating proprietary vendors; hopefully latter is driving decisions. In any case, I'm not sure AOO really started race to bottom -- LO required MPL contributions before AOO came to light. AOO under a permissive license may have just allowed LO to do what would've taken them forever to do otherwise. Which is a little different than reacting from a weakened position. Caveat: this is from memory, I could have sequence and causality completely wrong.
That's a good page on the libreplanet wiki; made a couple edits.
Yeh, maybe it's justified Posted Jan 29, 2013 10:23 UTC (Tue) by thumperward (guest, #34368) [Link]
The "race to the bottom" was started long ago when Sun allowed third parties to license the OOo code under non-copyleft terms. The intention of licensing any new LibreOffice code under the MPL was to allow organisations who had taken that route to transition to using LibreOffice as the base for their products instead of whatever ancient revision of OOo they'd licensed from Sun (and thus bringing them back into the ecosystem). This had nothing to do with Apache.
Indeed, it is precisely because LibreOffice made such a huge concession to the likes of IBM in relicensing much more permissively that there was so such disdain for Oracle's contriving to donate the openoffice.org trademark and domain names to Apache, where they would be jealously withheld from the living codebase.
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