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IBM discontinued Lotus Symphony nearly 10 years ago. OpenOffice continues because the Apache project chairs in place hate the GPL, and even worse, they hate adm
by Jasper_ 4y ago
IBM discontinued Lotus Symphony nearly 10 years ago. OpenOffice continues because the Apache project chairs in place hate the GPL, and even worse, they hate admitting they lost. It's a moral/pride thing rather than a practical or business thing at this point. But IBM was the reason it exists in the first place.
- usrusr 4y agoJudging from the simplified fork graph in the article (likely greatly simplified, I admit), I'd expect something depending on Symphony to be far more compatible with current Open than with current Libre. But sure, the licencing difference might very well be a part of that.
- Taywee 4y ago> OpenOffice continues because the Apache project chairs in place hate the GPL LibreOffice isn't even GPL. It's Mozilla Public License (MPL). Still copyleft, but much more weakly so, because only MPL source files are required to stay MPL. You can mix MPL files with even proprietary source files, and you only have to distribute the changes to the original MPL files. Though I suppose that might conflict with the Apache foundation in general. Don't they require Apache license for all their software?