CUPS relicensed to Apache v2

Posted Nov 9, 2017 15:26 UTC (Thu) by Conan_Kudo (subscriber, #103240)
In reply to: CUPS relicensed to Apache v2 by Wol
Parent article: CUPS relicensed to Apache v2

LibreOffice is dual licensed MPLv2 / LGPLv3+, per the licensing page.

CUPS relicensed to Apache v2

Posted Nov 9, 2017 18:56 UTC (Thu) by cornelio (guest, #117499) [Link] (3 responses)

When dual-licensing the weakest license is stronger.

CUPS relicensed to Apache v2

Posted Nov 10, 2017 11:19 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (2 responses)

Yup. So you're free to take the code and put it in an (L)GPL(+) project, but when working with LO itself, you can use the greater freedoms granted to you by the MPL. (You can ignore the restrictions unique to the LGPL.)

Cheers,
Wol

CUPS relicensed to Apache v2

Posted Nov 12, 2017 0:13 UTC (Sun) by cyphar (subscriber, #110703) [Link] (1 responses)

Not to mention that it is fairly well-accepted by both Mozilla and the FSF that MPLv2 (without the "Incompatible With Secondary Licenses" notice) is _explicitly_ GPL-compatible so the dual-licensing doesn't really make much sense here...

CUPS relicensed to Apache v2

Posted Nov 12, 2017 0:53 UTC (Sun) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

It's historical. Sun OO was LGPL2, Oracle OO was LGPL3 before they gave it to Apache.

So for quite a while LO was only distributable under the (L)GPL3 (and (L)GPL2 before that). All code submitted to Go-OO and LO, though, was MPL.

So until the rebase (we have to thank Apache for that, despite what we think of them for other reasons ...) LO was LGPL because that was the licence of the parent code-base.

Cheers,
Wol