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Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation

Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation

Posted Jun 1, 2011 18:45 UTC (Wed) by AlexHudson (guest, #41828)
In reply to: Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation by kragil
Parent article: Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation

Why would they bother to relicense to ASL?

The only people who are interested in the code under that license at this point are IBM, and that's only so they can ship their proprietary version "Symphony". Why are other people going to give them a leg-up to do that?

Given that Oracle have basically shut up shop, IBM have promised that the Symphony people would be "more active" and the active hackers are at LibreOffice, I think it's the other way around: I don't see how the ASF project can possibly keep up with LibreOffice, which has a head start as well.


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Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation

Posted Jun 1, 2011 21:01 UTC (Wed) by jhoger (guest, #33302) [Link]

Well IBM could pay the authors of those bits to relicense... stranger things have happened.


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