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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."

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  1. Re:Comparison of terms? by Eminence · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Come on, start a blog, write to a newspaper, anything. But why you have to put it here, in a topic about an office package where everything you'll get is being moded down as a troll.