On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 10:56:20PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Frankly, I never understood why OpenOffice not just GPL. Why the > insistance to allow Sun and IBM to create proprietary versions of it?
OO.o was triple-licensed GPL+LGPL+MPL. The MPL is generally more liberal than the LGPL - each file is considered separately. But even that was not good enough for IBM, that kept its own proprietary fork based on a separate, proprietarily-licensed copy of that work (also used for the proprietary StarOffice / Oracle OpenOffice and its web version). Eventually Oracle dropped all of its proprietary OO.o-based products and OO.o was relicensed as Apache for IBM and one or two other small vendors with most of the comunity moved to LibreOffice. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
