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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...""

18 of 191 comments (clear)

  1. First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah!! First Comment!!! Oh yeah.. I didn't even read the article thing..

    1. Re:First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yeah!! First Comment!!! Oh yeah.. I didn't even read the article thing..

      WTF was that? You must be a newbie here. "First Comment"?!? sheesh

      I'm embarrased for you so I'll post Anonymously.

  2. respect the cock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    tame the cunt!!!!!!!!!!

  3. 21st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    century/post

    1. Re:21st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. Re:Evolution of a software license by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. 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...

  6. 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.

  7. Re:Very interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  8. THEY CALL ME YUCKMOUTH CAUSE I DON'T BRUSH! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  9. RX7 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    RX7s are evul. Please, kill my neighbours.

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  12. Me run OS X cuz it ez to uze! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic



  13. me funny to by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of these licenses.
    tehehe tehheee
    i'm funny right? Just like the other lamers around here. tehehehehehe

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

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  15. 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.