Re: [libreoffice-users] Question Concerning your product

Hi :)
Lol, true, i think.  OpenOffice is a fork of Star Office.  Actually i think some people would argue 
that LibreOffice is the continuation of OpenOffice and that OpenOffice under Oracle and now Apache 
is the fork.  TDF is most of the original OpenOffice.org community from when that was under Sun and 
so as a community project LibreOffice is arguably the continuation rather than the "new kid on the 
block".  

Either way both projects have at least a decade of experience working under the LGPL type copyleft 
(rather than copyright) agreements.  Creative Commons copyleft agreements for documents, artwork, 
videos and so on presumably built from the GPL and LGPL.  
http://creativecommons.org/

Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Thu, 22/12/11, Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question Concerning your product
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 22 December, 2011, 15:56

On 12/21/2011 08:08 PM, Mike Watson wrote:
> I am considering downloading your product to avoid having to buy Microsoft Office.  But I have a 
> question about your product.  On your Features page you said that the LGPL public license could 
> be hacked by the user.  What does that mean?  Does it mean that anyone can hack it?  Please reply 
> whenever you can. Thank you for your time.                         
Libreoffice is open source software issued under the LGPL license which means that LO must provide 
the source code to anyone who wants it. Thus anyone, assuming they have the skills, can modify the 
code for internal/personal use, possible inclusion into the LO base code, or release as a 
derivative project or fork. If you release the code, under the terms of the LGPL you must release 
the source code. Note, modified code that LO has not included in the main code base must be 
released as a fork.

LO is actually a fork of Open Office another open source project now under the Apache Foundation. 
Thus the original code for LO is from OOo and it has been modified to improve it resulting in LO.

There are numerous official, semi-official, and unofficial sources of LO.

-- Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com


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