2011/11/7 Christopher Fynn <chris.f...@gmail.com>: > I'm sure people like RedHat, Debian, and Sun/Oracle (who use it in > OpenOffice) - have satisfied themselves that the open type rendering > they use is unencumbered.
Actually now, this (OpenOffice) should no longer be Sun/Oracle but Apache. Oracle has donated OpenOffice to Apache that accepted it. Since the ecqusiation of Sun by Oracle, some OpenOffice developers were unhappy with Oracle and splitted the project in LibreOffice; not sure that both projects will merge again now that OpenOffice goes to Apache, but Apache has stated that both projects could live now (there are some differences in the GUI, but many developers are already trying to make modules that works on both projects). For now OpenOffice is still branced by Oracle in the current distribution, this may change in the next major relase showing the Apache branch, once all IPR issues are solved between Oracle and Apache.
