Re: [tdf-discuss] Licensing question

2013-07-26 Thread RA Stehmann
On 26.07.2013 00:06, theUser BL wrote: > At first: Congratulation to LibreOffice 4.1. > > In the forums to german news, the most people want to see LibreOffice and > ApacheOpenOffice to merge. > Merging parts of the code is one thing, merging the projects is another. IMO a good and fair collab

Re: [tdf-discuss] Licensing question

2013-07-26 Thread RA Stehmann
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

Re: [tdf-discuss] Licensing question

2013-07-26 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Michael, On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 09:53 +0200, RA Stehmann wrote: > So: why does LibreOffice use the MPL? The MPLv2 has many advantages and some weaknesses, as do all licenses depending of course on what you want to achieve. Having said that, personally I believe it is a great choice for

[tdf-discuss] security related information, CVE-2013-2189 and CVE-2013-4156

2013-07-26 Thread Caolán McNamara
Apache OpenOffice has announced the details of CVE-2013-2189 and CVE-2013-4156 as they affect Apache OpenOffice, i.e. CVE-2013-2189: CVE-2013-2189: OpenOffice DOC Memory Corruption Vulnerability http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.maven.announce/1503 CVE-2013-4156: OpenOffice DOCM Memory