cono wrote:

Is there a short reference (which of course means reliable as well) on this?

Perhaps not "short" but certainly reliable and well worth the read.

Primary sources:
* Peter Galli's eWeek article:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1829728,00.asp

* Legal analysis by Marbux (retired lawyer working with Groklaw):
http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20050331183622861#A4

* Brian Jones from Microsoft admits that it's GPL-incompatible.
http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/09/22/472826.aspx

Good secondary sources:
(these contain good summaries with references to primary sources)

* Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument#Licensing
(skip one paragraph)

* David Wheeler.
http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/why-opendocument-won.html
(search for "GPL")

Cheers,
Daniel.
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