GPL 3

Post by **EdH** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:42 pm

It looks like OOo is going to LGPL 3.0:
http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/newlicense2008.html

Discuss.

Post by **AndrewZ** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:38 pm

Actually it's the LGPL V3, which is different than GPL v3

Post by **EdH** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:35 pm

AndrewZ wrote:Actually it's the LGPL V3, which is different than GPL v3

Fixed. Need to type/reread better.

Post by **AndrewZ** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:24 am

I haven't read about the LGPL v2 vs v3, but when I saw the announcement, I was excited because I thought they would do away with the JCA. They did, but they replaced it with the SCA. I don't really have a problem with either the JCA or SCA, but Novell does have a problem with it (or at least, some of its employees), and that apparently is a big reason why libwps (the Microsoft Works text importer I mostly wrote) is not in the upstream OpenOffice.org.

What else is there to be excited about?

Post by **AndrewZ** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:37 am

Some blogs
http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/open ... _to_lgplv3
http://www.jroller.com/erAck/entry/open ... oes_lgplv3
http://www.gnome.org/~michael/activity.html#2008-03-06

Post by **AndrewZ** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:03 pm

Here's your discussion

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/07/1330225

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