Oracle donates OpenOffice.org to Apache
Oracle donates OpenOffice.org to Apache
Posted Jun 9, 2011 8:18 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)In reply to: Oracle donates OpenOffice.org to Apache by butlerm
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IANAL either, but the really key thing to me was that Oracle is transferring the OpenOffice.org trademark to the ASF. The Apache licence is a very permissive licence, so if the OOo codebase is released under that licence, there is nothing to stop LO from using it. But it does not permit use of trademarks in derived code. However, if the ASF will now own the OOo trademark, what's to stop them allowing LibreOffice to use it -- if, that is, both parties want to? Then wouldn't that be as good as transferring rights to TDF in the first place?