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matthew
September 3rd, 2005, 08:59 PM
Sun has decided to releasse OpenOffice under the LGPL alone instead of that and their own Sun Industry Standard Source License (SISSL)

Here are the links:
http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/license-change.html
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/03/1618250

BWF89
September 3rd, 2005, 09:08 PM
If a program is licenced under the LGPL that means that one could take the Open Source OOo and build proprietary editions to it right?

I thought the LGPL was created to use with extensions and plugins. Like if I wanted to make an Open Source extension/plugin for the proprietray Internet Explorer browser.

matthew
September 3rd, 2005, 09:16 PM
If a program is licenced under the LGPL that means that one could take the Open Source OOo and build proprietary editions to it right?

I thought the LGPL was created to use with extensions and plugins. Like if I wanted to make an Open Source extension/plugin for the proprietray Internet Explorer browser.
http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-licensing.html#11 for the short version of the difference between GPL and LGPL

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html for the full definition of LGPL

A couple of other good links on the topic:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.php
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html

phen
September 3rd, 2005, 09:20 PM
maybe they prepare themselves for microsofts open document standard? in order to integrate it in OOo, they need to change to LGPL (at least i think so)