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2017-01-12 6:18 GMT+09:00 Dave <nore...@tasit.net>: > On 11.01.2017 09:44, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > > On 1/10/2017 11:29 PM, Nagy �kos wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> it is impossible, because the LO license is LGPL+MPL, that can't be > >> merged in OpenOffice. > > > > That choice of license was very unfortunate, and a regrettable barrier > > to cooperation between the projects. When LO split off they could have > > kept the Apache license and the potential for future cooperation. > > The first release of OOo v3 was under LGPLv3 per Louis Suarez-Potts: > https://lwn.net/Articles/272202/ > > In September 2010 LO forked from OOo and released LO 3.3 in January 2011 > under the same license. > > Around 6 months later in June 2011 Oracle donated the LGPLv3 code to the > ASF and AOO 3.4 was released in May 2012 under ALv2. > > In spite of a seemingly contradictory statement on the license page of > the LO website, the above dates clearly show that LO code was forked > from the original OOo code, not from the AOO code. > > Please let's not try to rewrite history. > > -- > Please address any reply to the mailing list only. Any messages sent to > this noreply@ address are automatically deleted from the server and will > never be read. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
