On 26.07.2013 00:32, Toki Kantoor wrote: > On 07/25/2013 10:06 PM, theUser BL wrote: > >> The big question is: Why doing LibreOffice that? > > The short answer is that the licenses that each organization uses allows > that to happen. > > The longer answer is that free qua libre has implications that free qua > open does not have. Implications that the Apache Foundation is > apparently not willing to accept. Likewise, free qua open has > implications that free qua libre does not have. Implications that the > Document Foundation is apparently not willing to accept. >
That's not the whole truth. The Apache licence doesn't contain a copyleft clause - that's true. But the MPL contains a very weak copyleft. The copyleft of the LGPL is much stronger. So: why does LibreOffice use the MPL? Think about it! Regards Michael -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
