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I'd follow LibreOffice, it's more feature rich, plus LibreOffice is licensed under the Mozilla Public License and LGPL3, which means OpenOffice won't be able to
by mbreedlove 14y ago
I'd follow LibreOffice, it's more feature rich, plus LibreOffice is licensed under the Mozilla Public License and LGPL3, which means OpenOffice won't be able to use all the progress LibreOffice has made. I have a feeling OpenOffice has a very short lifespan at this point. I am however in no way an expert on either of the two, this is just what I have read over the months.
- luke_s 14y agoCan LibreOffice use the improvements to OpenOffice? If so, it seems like the relationship could become quite one sided with LO able to pull in all the fixes to OO and use that to move further ahead, but with OO unable to re-use any of the LO work.
- mbreedlove 14y agoI believe they can, the Apache license is quite permissive, allowing LO to use features added to OO, not the other way around, however.
- kijin 14y agoOO uses the Apache License, which would allow LO to pull any change it wants. Of course it doesn't work the other way around, because LO's licenses are more copyleft. So you're right, it could get quite one-sided.