Re: [libreoffice-l10n] OOo goes to Apache Foundation

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> On 02/06/2011 12:29, Mike Dupont wrote:
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> > This means that changes can be cherry picked out and included in libreoffice, no?
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> What changes?
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> Under the new OOo license there is no requirement for source code to be
> available, much less sent up stream.
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> Which means that the best license for LibO to use is AGPL, precisely
> because it is incompatible with the EULA that OOo will be distributed
> under. (Unless you don't mind your LibO contributions being used in a
> closed source, priority program that is distributed under a EULA on
> slightly less restrictive than MSO2000 Enterprise Edition.)

AGPL is a stricter version of GPL.  It adds restrictions on Internet interactions.
Also note that Libreoffice's LGPL licensing is incompatible with the OOo license.

> > Also, may i ask what is the point of a lgpl. library gpl for an application.

LGPL now means _Lesser_ General Public License.

> It allows the program to be distributed as closed source, without making
> that fact immediately obvious.

Not quite.  It allows the LGPL program to be distributed as a component of a closed source set of 
programs.
Any altered form of the LGPL program itself must also be LGPL (or GPL), and not closed source.

In practical terms, it means that Libreoffice can always be distributed by others along with closed 
source programs, so allowing a wider use of Libreoffice.
But if the code of Libreoffice itself is changed, and it is redistributed, the new program must 
have LGPL (or GPL) licensing, and the code source must be made available.  So these changes would 
be available to enhance Libreoffice, if we wish.

Note that if any open source program is modified, but it is not redistributed, there is no 
obligation to release source code.

> jonathon

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André

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