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| Authored by: Wol on Saturday, May 18 2013 @ 12:25 PM EDT |
Actually, no.
The official LO licence is MPL, and all code written for LibreOffice is MPL.
The LGPL is a historical accident, as OpenOffice.org was released by Oracle
under the LGPL3. It is only original OOo code that is LGPL licenced (and due to
compatibility requirements, LO as a whole has to be LGPL too).
There is an on-going effort to rebase against AOO and strip off the LPGL, and
all 3rd-party LPGL code is being systematically removed.
For example, and I'm personally involved in this, LO (the official version) does
NOT ship with a connector for MySQL. Because it's LGPL (the build included the
code to pull in the connector, but by default it's off). It's being rewritten to
connect to MariaDB so the licence will become MPL, and because MariaDB has
committed to MySQL compatibility the same connector will talk to both.
So in short, ALL code written for LO (I believe this was true for Go-OO too) is
MPL licenced. There may be old historical code with other licences, hence the
LGPL stuff.
Cheers,
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