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Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice by PeterisP on Friday September 02, 2016 @09:30AM (#12412875)
What's the point of that wasted effort? What you're asking is "if X has no contributors, why don't Y people become contributors and start contributing?"

Currently there are differences between code bases. If the OpenOffice team wants to abandon OO codebase and distribute a version of LibreOffice with some splash screen and text resource changes, then they're free to do so, it's open source.

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Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice by EdSharkey on Friday September 02, 2016 @12:02PM (#12413934)
I was thinking more like a takeover of the Open Office codebase since its organization has collapsed. Take over the administration, steering committee, etc.

I can see that the codebases have diverged, but will a lot be lost if Open Office's codebase was clobbered with the LibreOffice sources?

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Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice by JohnTHaller on Friday September 02, 2016 @06:13PM (#12416651)
Apache wouldn't permit that due to their distaste for LibreOffice's licensing (read: copyleft).
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Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice by rectang on Friday September 02, 2016 @06:43PM (#12416793)
LibreOffice doesn't like Apache's licensing, but AOO is happy to share the code with them and they are happy to consume it.

Both sides have strong beliefs, but the licensing situation benefits the copyleft faction.

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