On 04/17/2017 09:01 AM, nasrin khaksar wrote: > i heard sometimes that openoffice license is license of oracle company.
Oracle purchased Sun. That purchase included the trademarks, copyrights, and other intellectual property rights held by OpenOffice.org. After a couple of years, Oracle donated OpenOffice.org, including trademarks, copyright, and other intellectual property rights to The Apache Software Foundation. Which means that Oracles does owns neither Apache Open Office nor OpenOffice.org. However, Oracle does own Java, which is used by both LibreOffice and Apache Open Office. Given a couple of somewhat bizarre legal theories, supported by, what shall be termed "interesting' court decisions, an extremely shaky legal theory can be made that Oracle owns both LibreOffice, and Apache Open Office. As much as I'd like to think that Oracle has persuaded itself that ownership of FLOSS is not possible, I wouldn't put it past them to be willing to squander away a trillion or so dollars, in lawsuits to assert ownership of LibreOffice, Apache OpenOffice, and other FLOSS software that it finds either inconvenience, or a potential cash cow. > is it true? There is an apocryphal story of a first legal intern being told examine a software license. In researching the license, he asked: "Is there any way, shape, or form, in which Oracle can assert control of the software?" Upon being told that Oracle was purchasing the company that made the software whose license was being analysed, the intern said; "I can not recommend accepting this license, because it will depend upon Oracle. As an Oracle license, all terms and conditions are subject to their specific interpretation, which usually comes down to: "All your bases, they belong to us". Said intern was dully blacklisted by the company. A decade later, one of the members of the board of directors found himself across the dinner table from said intern. The member told the intern that his prediction about what Oracle would do, turned out to be valid, with disastrous consequences to the company. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted