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CLA Redux - The Donation of OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation
- jdp23 15y agoAn excellent and very detailed discussion of a complex issue. I can certainly see why any copyleft supporters who had contributed to OpenOffice are outraged. From the legal perspective, wasn't the GPL designed to prevent situations like this?
- ubernostrum 15y agoThe GPL was designed to prevent certain things. But the GPL cannot prevent the copyright holder choosing to change the license of future versions.