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LibreOffice (LO) Apache OpenOffice (AOO) This is from my memory and I am not checking my facts, so here it goes: I was under the impression that AOO still has contributors.... The original split was based on ideology, not sure if that is still the case. I will concede that LO has had much more development than AOO. I am not sure if that is why most Linux distros use LO rather than AOO or if that is also based on ideology; never cared enough to look into it. I won’t bother with the entire history of AOO / LO, but, some people did not like the license used by AOO. At the time, it was not owned by Apache, I think it was owned by Oracle after Oracle purchased Sun Micro-Systems. In other words, the split was based in ideology (disagreement with the license). So LO forked from OpenOffice.org with their own license. Obviously they had to rewrite certain things to go with their license of choice. Soms is outlined at the Wiki page mentioned above. LibreOffice License https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/licenses GPL / LGPL V3+ and Mozilla Public License v2.0 Apache OpenOffice License https://www.openoffice.org/license.html ASL I am not sure it is a correct characterization and I am not going to spend time reading through all the license stuff, but I heard it summarized as follows: LO's license will allow the developer to own the coding they are sharing with the project, where AOO's really will give that project the ownership of the coding. Whether or not the "wording" is stating that, that is what most developers I have "talked" with have told me. Without looking it up, I would have characterized the difference noting that ASL is more permissive than GPL. Specifically, if you modify or use GPL code the new code is GPL. Because of this, most companies forbid the use of GPL code to be used with code that they develop (or their code becomes GPL), which is kind of the point of the GPL. The code that I release (as in not for my employer) I release on a very permissive license, but that also means that others can take my code and sell it after minor modifications. LO immediately gained lots of traction with many contributors while Oracle decided what to do with OOo and then they eventually handed it over to Apache. Initially, the documentation group was working with both LO and AOO, but there was a falling out between the person leading the group and some people with AOO. I never fully understood the disagreement but noted that the primary individual indicated that they would no longer work on AOO documentation so the group producing LO documentation mostly abandoned AOO but are still strongly working on LO documentation. On Wednesday, June 22, 2022 17:30 EDT, Flaviu Tamas <m...@flaviutamas.com.INVALID> wrote: Why hasn't OpenOffice been wound down & shuttered? The existence of the website makes users assume that OpenOffice is still actively being developed, when those users would be much better served migrating to LibreOffice. I've seen this conversation several times over the past few years in various open source communities. At the very least, a prominent notice that users should use LibreOffice on the main OpenOffice site would be nice. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
