An open letter to Apache OpenOffice

Posted Feb 7, 2021 18:02 UTC (Sun) by sirinath (guest, #144668)
Parent article: An open letter to Apache OpenOffice

I think the 1st step to reconcile the 2 projects would be move to AL 2.0 or a permissive non viral Copyfree license (http://copyfree.org/).

As long as LibreOffice remain with the current licensing terms Apache OpenOffice will remain a more free viable alternative to LibreOffice for those who adhere to these values and philosophy.

An open letter to Apache OpenOffice

Posted Feb 7, 2021 18:41 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

>As long as LibreOffice remain with the current licensing terms Apache OpenOffice will remain a more >free viable alternative to LibreOffice for those who adhere to these values and philosophy.

No, Apache OpenOffice won't be an alternative because it is not really getting any active development. License doesn't matter in this case.

An open letter to Apache OpenOffice

Posted Feb 7, 2021 19:23 UTC (Sun) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

> I think the 1st step to reconcile the 2 projects would be move to AL 2.0 or a permissive non viral Copyfree license

LO cannot reasonably do so, because it has neither monolithic copyright ownership nor a contributor licensing agreement.

Also, copyfree appears – based on the things it rejects – to be a movement for the freedom to be an exploiter, rather than the freedom to not be exploited.

> As long as LibreOffice remain with the current licensing terms Apache OpenOffice will remain a more free viable alternative to LibreOffice for those who adhere to these values and philosophy.

Unlike AOO (which is a zombie), LO has no shortage of contributors. It can live without this hypothetical body of additional contributors.

An open letter to Apache OpenOffice

Posted Feb 13, 2021 0:33 UTC (Sat) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

If the only reason to use AOO over LO is a “more free” license… damned by faint praise much?