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Re:Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation by rbanffy on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @04:52PM (#2609279)
> That is really what needs to be done, both office suites are still almost identical.

Except for licensing. LGPL prevents proprietary forks. IIRC Apache allows them. I wonder why Oracle would want to change the license (or not donate OOo directly to the Document Foundation)

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Re:Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation by jchrisa on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @11:10PM (#2610492)
grant to Apache Software Foundation usually means a grant of any patents covering the code, so that is a reason to be happy they went Apache.
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Re:Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation by rbanffy on Thursday June 02, 2011 @02:24PM (#2613248)
Wouldn't moving to LGPLv3 be a more natural transition?
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