How about donating MySQL too!
Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
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Re: Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
#22Is there a good argument against Oracle releasing ZFS under the GPL (so that it could be integrated into the Linux kernel)?
Re: Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
#23As expected Oracle didn't donate it to The Document Foundation. There will be more calls to merge the OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice projects now. That is really what needs to be done, both office suites are still almost identical. The Apache Software Foundation and The Document Foundation have to overcome their egos and do the right thing. Then we could credit TDF with 'liberating' OOO and ASF with closing the deal.…
> That is really what needs to be done, both office suites are still almost identical. Except for licensing. LGPL prevents proprietary forks. IIRC Apache allows them. I wonder why Oracle would want to change the license (or not donate OOo directly to the Document Foundation)
grant to Apache Software Foundation usually means a grant of any patents covering the code, so that is a reason to be happy they went Apache.
Re: Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
#24As expected Oracle didn't donate it to The Document Foundation. There will be more calls to merge the OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice projects now. That is really what needs to be done, both office suites are still almost identical. The Apache Software Foundation and The Document Foundation have to overcome their egos and do the right thing. Then we could credit TDF with 'liberating' OOO and ASF with closing the deal.…
"a new division in the Open Source community"
The open source community can't be divided. Or do you equate a 'division' with a fork, like emacs/xemacs, openbsd/netbsd, joomla/mambo?
Re: Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
#25Bradley Kuhn's take on this is that "relicensing part of the codebase out from under LibreOffice may actually be the most insidious attack Oracle and IBM could make on the project"
Re: Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
#26Is there a good argument against Oracle releasing ZFS under the GPL (so that it could be integrated into the Linux kernel)?
No more reason to buy Solaris licenses?
Re: Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
#27This is one of those things that I can read as both good news and bad news. I'm really hopeful that the LibreOffice and OOo communities could now get together and work together and even collapse the code base to one codebase again, but I'm doubtful that will happen. It would be a huge shame to see split efforts continue as it would hurt both projects and, frankly, they are both still lacking FAR behind any of the pro…
MS office compatibility is a good point, but that's everyone's goal, even Apple's Pages isn't much good at it.
From what I understand, someone just needs to make a dedicated browser for Office online.
Re: Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
#28As expected Oracle didn't donate it to The Document Foundation. There will be more calls to merge the OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice projects now. That is really what needs to be done, both office suites are still almost identical. The Apache Software Foundation and The Document Foundation have to overcome their egos and do the right thing. Then we could credit TDF with 'liberating' OOO and ASF with closing the deal.…
Not really... As far as I can tell, the licences are compatible in a way that LibreOffice can use the Apache licensed code in their LGPL licenced project, so it will continue to be the stronger fork.
With distros having put their support behind LibreOffice, I don't think that there will be much competition. I think they will either continue to be very similar, or LibreOffice will steam ahead...
Re: Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
#29Why the quotes around "donates"? This doesn't seem like a white elephant, or a trojan horse. It's commendable that they gave it up rather than let it rot.
With all the active OOo developers having created The Document Foundation and producing a new, active project that almost every Linux distro is now supporting, donating it to another organisation is unproductive and poses a threat of dividing the community.
I think that it's too late to really damage LibreOffice though. They have got a lot of support so far.
Re: Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
#30How about donating MySQL too!
That would make even bigger news. :-)