Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing

2011-06-06 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Jesús Corrius je...@softcatala.org To: michael.me...@novell.com Hi Michael, On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Michael Meeks michael.me...@novell.com wrote: On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 08:48 -0400, Allen Pulsifer wrote: 1. TDF takes OOo under the Apache

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing

2011-06-06 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 07:39 -0700, BRM wrote: Just remember, that even with LGPL/GPL the changes _do not have to be contributed back to the community_; only made available to the customers of that product upon request (per LGPL, GPL and MPL). Not entirely correct. The source has to be

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing

2011-06-06 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Kohei Yoshida kyosh...@novell.com To: BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com Cc: libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org Sent: Mon, June 6, 2011 11:44:37 AM Subject: Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 07:39 -0700, BRM wrote: Just remember

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing

2011-06-06 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 12:32 -0700, BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Kohei Yoshida kyosh...@novell.com To: BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com Cc: libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org Sent: Mon, June 6, 2011 11:44:37 AM Subject: Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing On Mon, 2011

[Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing

2011-06-04 Thread Allen Pulsifer
If I understand correctly: What is developed by the Apache license can be used at LibreOffice but what is done by LibreOffice can not be used by OpenOffice as OpenOffice would move to offer the principles of under the GPL. I'm not sure this is entirely correct. TDF allowed itself some license

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing

2011-06-04 Thread Rafael Dominguez
Well im no legal expert, but from what i understand of the LGPL/MPL licenses, they still are copyleft licenses, you can merge apache code and libreoffice code, make your own version if you want, sell it etc, but if you make any derivative work, you need to make those changes available to the rest,

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing

2011-06-04 Thread Greg Stein
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:59, Rafael Dominguez venccsra...@gmail.com wrote: Well im no legal expert, but from what i understand of the LGPL/MPL licenses, they still are copyleft licenses, you can merge apache code and libreoffice code, make your own version if you want, sell it etc, but if you

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing

2011-06-04 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 08:48 -0400, Allen Pulsifer wrote: 1. TDF takes OOo under the Apache License and combines it with LO contributions under the LGPL/MPL and licenses the combined work (LibreOffice) under both the LGPL and MPL? So if we say MPLv2 and LGPLv3+ - that is fine; and the

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing

2011-06-04 Thread Jesús Corrius
Hi Michael, On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Michael Meeks michael.me...@novell.com wrote: On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 08:48 -0400, Allen Pulsifer wrote: 1. TDF takes OOo under the Apache License and combines it with LO contributions under the LGPL/MPL and licenses the combined work (LibreOffice)

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing

2011-06-04 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-06-04 12:11, Michael Meeks a écrit : On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 08:48 -0400, Allen Pulsifer wrote: 1. TDF takes OOo under the Apache License and combines it with LO contributions under the LGPL/MPL and licenses the combined work (LibreOffice) under both the LGPL and MPL? So if we