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As expected Oracle didn't donate it to The Document Foundation. There will be more calls to merge the OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice projects now. That is reall

by codeup 15y ago

As expected Oracle didn't donate it to The Document Foundation. There will be more calls to merge the OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice projects now. That is really what needs to be done, both office suites are still almost identical. The Apache Software Foundation and The Document Foundation have to overcome their egos and do the right thing. Then we could credit TDF with 'liberating' OOO and ASF with closing the deal. If they don't merge OOO and LO this 'donation' could create a new division in the Open Source community.

rbanffy 15y ago
> That is really what needs to be done, both office suites are still almost identical. Except for licensing. LGPL prevents proprietary forks. IIRC Apache allows them. I wonder why Oracle would want to change the license (or not donate OOo directly to the Document Foundation)
- jchrisa 15y ago
  grant to Apache Software Foundation usually means a grant of any patents covering the code, so that is a reason to be happy they went Apache.
  - rbanffy 15y ago
    Wouldn't moving to LGPLv3 be a more natural transition?
Luyt 15y ago
"a new division in the Open Source community" The open source community can't be divided. Or do you equate a 'division' with a fork, like emacs/xemacs, openbsd/netbsd, joomla/mambo?
stephen_g 15y ago
Not really... As far as I can tell, the licences are compatible in a way that LibreOffice can use the Apache licensed code in their LGPL licenced project, so it will continue to be the stronger fork. With distros having put their support behind LibreOffice, I don't think that there will be much competition. I think they will either continue to be very similar, or LibreOffice will steam ahead...