An open letter to Apache OpenOffice

Posted Oct 16, 2020 6:19 UTC (Fri) by edomaur (subscriber, #14520)
In reply to: An open letter to Apache OpenOffice by oever
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It's also related to the way the Apache Foundation manage its various projects, if I remember correctly they are by definition required to use the Apache License. So, each time a project move under the Apache umbrella, it adopts the ASL.

An open letter to Apache OpenOffice

Posted Oct 16, 2020 10:52 UTC (Fri) by amacater (subscriber, #790) [Link]

Blame Oracle, perhaps, for dog in the manger tactics. As successors in title to Sun Microsystems, they chose deliberately to pass OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation, knowing full well that an incompatible licence would make life more difficult for LibreOffice, despite requests at the time to allow a merger or licence compatibility. That's similar to the problems with Sun's CDDL, all the OpenSolaris derivatives problems with licensing and, indeed, the spat with Google over Java. At this point, it's not explicable by incompetence, unfamiliarity with or lack of understanding of FLOSS licence dynamics: it does feel more like malice or spite.