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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 30/01/13 05:22 AM, Stephen Gallagher
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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?
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My issue with Apache OpenOffice can be seen on LWN:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lwn.net/Articles/532665/">https://lwn.net/Articles/532665/</a><br>
Here is an extract:<br>
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The Apache Software Foundation releases code under the Apache
license; they
are, indeed, rather firm on that point. The Symphony repository,
though,
as checked out from svn.apache.org,
contains nearly 3,600 files with the following text:
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<pre> * Licensed Materials - Property of IBM.
* (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 2003, 2011. All Rights Reserved.
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That, of course, is an entirely non-free license header.
Interestingly, over 2,000 of those files <i>also</i> 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.
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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.<br>
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<p>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.<br>
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<p>Luya<br>
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