Ciao Gianluca;
On 04/05/12 03:47, Gianluca Turconi wrote:
Hello *,
is there a page like "LGPL vs Apache 2.0" FAQ for Apache OpenOffice,
in order to show explicitly to users and distributors what differences
there are btw those licenses?
Something like "Before you could do that, now you can do the same
thing (or not)".
It would be very useful, IMO, to avoid misunderstandings.
Regards,
A while ago I added this to the Release Notes:
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License Change
The License has changed from LGPLv3 to the compatible Apache License 2
to comply with Apache Software Foundation guidelines. The Apache License
will make adoption and general distribution of the software much easier
since it doesn't require making available the source code. Of course the
software continues being free and the source code with its updates will
continue being available through the Apache Software Foundation servers.
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We will obviously not be enforcing the GPL on previous releases, so
maybe we should probably add something in this page:
http://www.openoffice.org/license.html
in that sense.
Pedro.
