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On 30/01/13 05:22 AM, Stephen Gallagher
wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Given that OpenOffice and LibreOffice share a common history (and not that far back), are there going to be any efforts made to allow them to be parallel-installable on the system, or will they be fully-fledged Conflicts: packages? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlEJHpoACgkQeiVVYja6o6NKTwCdHQNiLQ2/0hvnPEool39c/EHG QYsAoKcrEJFBrYnh6rhUpFJZ/1B70OyL =/hEX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- My issue with Apache OpenOffice can be seen on LWN: https://lwn.net/Articles/532665/ Here is an extract:
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* Licensed Materials - Property of IBM.
* (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 2003, 2011. All Rights Reserved.
That, of course, is an entirely non-free license header. Interestingly, over 2,000 of those files also have headers indicating that they are distributable under the GNU Lesser General Public License (version 3). These files, in other words, contain conflicting license information but neither case (proprietary or LGPLv3) is consistent with the Apache license. So it would not be entirely surprising to see a bit of confusion over what IBM has really donated.
The conflicting licenses are almost certainly an artifact of how
Symphony
was developed. IBM purchased the right to take the code
proprietary from
Sun; when IBM's code was added to existing, LGPLv3-licensed files,
the new headers were added without removing the old. Since this
code has
all been donated to the Foundation, clearing up the confusion
should just
be a matter of putting in new license headers. But that has not
yet
happened. Licensing is the problem. I think it is too early to add Apache
OpenOffice as feature in Fedora repository due to this ambiguity
and legal matter. Luya |
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