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Authored by: Wol on Tuesday, May 21 2013 @ 02:01 PM EDT |
Where is the misinformation, please, PJ?
FACT: All code written for LO (and I believe for its predecessor Go-OO) *must*
be licenced MPL because it won't be accepted otherwise.
FACT: The OOo code inherited from Oracle is LGPL3, so because this is the only
valid combination of LGPL3 and MPL, the only licence you can safely assume
applies to LO as a whole is LGPL3.
FACT: LO is slowly being rebased against AOO which means the MPL can be applied
that code.
And as I said above, I am personally involved in replacing the LGPL MySQL
connector (which is not built by default) with an MPL MariaDB connector.
The intention is that all of LO will eventually be available under the MPL.
But whatever, going back to the original comment that started all this, what
this means is that any enhancements made to LO to cope with new versions of
docx, those enhancements will be available *immediately* to Google under the
MPL, should they care to take advantage of it.
See https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/License_Policy (linked from the previous
page I mentioned). By the way, I authored this page ... (I know it says Michael
Meeks, I wrote it for him, he committed it because I can't edit that wiki.)
Cheers,
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