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Adrian Midgley wrote:
Couple of things:- 1. Star Office GPL or not? http://perens.com/Articles/StarOffice.html "On Wednesday, July 19 2000, Sun Microsystems promised that it would place StarOffice under the GNU General Public License on October 13, 2000. This entirely addresses the objections I made in the following article. Thanks, Sun! " I think they did do that, did they not?
I have this sense of deja-vu. No they licenced it under the lesser GPL. I always think of the lesser GPL as the kind of licence you would use for a math library, or a graphics library. So perhaps we should view OpenOffice as a kind of Word Processing object, rather than a Word processor. Certainly SUN have hinted they are keen to see the technology embedded in desktops, browsers and the like. They even have a licencing FAQ. http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/main_faq_new_p4.html The licencing looks like a mess, they want to use SISSL to preserve the openness, like they do with Java. Whilst I think this is a desirable goal, I think it could have been better achieved with a proper licence to cover everything, but I guess they are the ones with the lawyers. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.