Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing

2011-06-06 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 12:32 -0700, BRM wrote: > - Original Message > > > From: Kohei Yoshida > > To: BRM > > Cc: libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org > > Sent: Mon, June 6, 2011 11:44:37 AM > > Subject: Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing > &

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing

2011-06-06 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Kohei Yoshida > To: BRM > Cc: libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org > Sent: Mon, June 6, 2011 11:44:37 AM > Subject: Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing > > On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 07:39 -0700, BRM wrote: > > > Just remember

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing

2011-06-06 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 07:39 -0700, BRM wrote: > Just remember, that even with LGPL/GPL the changes _do not have to be > contributed back to the community_; only made available to the customers of > that > product upon request (per LGPL, GPL and MPL). Not entirely correct. The source has to be

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing

2011-06-06 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Jesús Corrius > To: michael.me...@novell.com > Hi Michael, > > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Michael Meeks >wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 08:48 -0400, Allen Pulsifer wrote: > >> 1. TDF takes OOo under the Apache License and combines it with LO >

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing

2011-06-04 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-06-04 12:11, Michael Meeks a écrit : On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 08:48 -0400, Allen Pulsifer wrote: 1. TDF takes OOo under the Apache License and combines it with LO contributions under the LGPL/MPL and licenses the combined work (LibreOffice) under both the LGPL and MPL? So if we s

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing

2011-06-04 Thread Jesús Corrius
Hi Michael, On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Michael Meeks wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 08:48 -0400, Allen Pulsifer wrote: >> 1. TDF takes OOo under the Apache License and combines it with LO >> contributions under the LGPL/MPL and licenses the combined work >> (LibreOffice) under both the LGP

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing

2011-06-04 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 08:48 -0400, Allen Pulsifer wrote: > 1. TDF takes OOo under the Apache License and combines it with LO > contributions under the LGPL/MPL and licenses the combined work > (LibreOffice) under both the LGPL and MPL? So if we say MPLv2 and LGPLv3+ - that is fine; and th

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing

2011-06-04 Thread Greg Stein
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:59, Rafael Dominguez wrote: > > Well im no legal expert, but from what i understand of the LGPL/MPL > licenses, they still are copyleft licenses, you can merge apache code and > libreoffice code, make your own version if you want, sell it etc, but if you > make any deriva

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing

2011-06-04 Thread Rafael Dominguez
Well im no legal expert, but from what i understand of the LGPL/MPL licenses, they still are copyleft licenses, you can merge apache code and libreoffice code, make your own version if you want, sell it etc, but if you make any derivative work, you need to make those changes available to the rest,

[Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing

2011-06-04 Thread Allen Pulsifer
> If I understand correctly: > What is developed by the Apache license can be "used" at LibreOffice but what is done by LibreOffice > can not be used by OpenOffice as OpenOffice would move to offer the principles of under the GPL. I'm not sure this is entirely correct. TDF allowed itself some lic