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OpenOffice Goes LGPL

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the good-news-for-the-written-word dept.

Motor writes "According to the OpenOffice.org site, Sun has decided to relicense OpenOffice under the LGPL alone and retire its Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL). Sun supporters claim that it's part of Sun's move to reduce the number of open source licenses. Of course it could just be PR, since Sun stirred up a lot of bad publicity with the introduction of the CDDL for the release of Solaris. Either way, it's good news for OpenOffice."

3 of 185 comments (clear)

  1. change of name too by jshaped · · Score: 3, Funny

    and they're changing the name of OpenOffice to:

    OOMLA!!!!!

  2. A Great Product is Now Fantastic by virtigex · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think that Sun should get a pat on the back for this. OpenOffice 1.9 is really "in the zone" when it comes to a productivity application. This just makes a great product a fantastic one. In these days of tight budgets, any company, large or small, should think twice about paying $300+ for a productivity suite that you could get for free (in both senses of the word) in OpenOffice.

  3. Re:God, you Sun-haters piss me off by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You know, the groundless Sun-bashing on here is just absurd, and is really stupid.

    Maybe, but I heard from a reliable source that Sun causes skin cancer.