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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. That's the Spirit! by philovivero · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sun bought up this office product and open-sourced it and gave it away and gave us an alternative to the Microsoft monopoly.

    But besides that, what has Sun ever done for us?

    I'm not going to thank them for now moving it to the simple LGPL license. I'm going to damn them anyway. Because... um. Because I like to be constantly pissed off?

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  2. Zonk's fault by dapyx · · Score: 0, Troll

    It must be Zonk's fault. It is always Zonk's fault. Please go to Preferences and uncheck Zonk's stories. (it's a joke. laugh)

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  3. Re:something about OO.o source by Onymous+Hero · · Score: 0, Troll

    First of all you've downloaded the wrong file...you need OOo_2.0beta2_Win32Intel_install.zip

    Just right click on it, unzip it, then double-click on 'setup.exe' and follow the instructions to install..Simple!