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Sun Offers To Relax OpenOffice.org License

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the muting-the-critcism dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This article at The Register says Sun has offered to relax licensing terms for contributers' code. "The moves should go some way towards muting criticism from the OpenOffice.org community that Sun was treating members as free labour and nothing else, and taking them at face value...""

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  1. Re:Evolution of a software license by Xenographic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm just waiting for

    9) ????
    10) Meme dies out.

    Then again, AYBABTU has survived for how long now...

  2. Re:Evolution of a software license by SageLikeFool · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Boy, that GPL is viral! Just like all the IIS virii and whatnot everybody tries to clone it.

  3. Hey, if it's a tradition... by kubrick · · Score: 1, Offtopic

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    1. Re:Hey, if it's a tradition... by hazyshadeofwinter · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      Or, if you prefer:
      1. We get signal!
      2. Somebody set us up the bomb!
      3. ???
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  4. biased by sister_snape · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The extract is highly biased in a seeming attempt to make Sun look as bad as possible. The truth is that the OpenOffice project was one of the best breaks for Linux on the desktop every and some very heavy hitters in ironing out Open Source licensing issues with corporate players were involved in setting this up. There was a remaining flaw that Sun insisted on ownership of the copyright if you wanted to contribute code. This was against LGPL as far as I am concerned. LGPL makes no conditions on who owns the copyright. They have now corrected this problem. They should be being congratulated both for the initial offering and for paying attention and fixing a flaw in their licensing.