OpenOffice vs LibreOffice

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Sat May 19 17:34:30 UTC 2012


On 05/19/2012 11:00 PM, Edward M wrote:
> On 05/19/2012 09:50 AM, Greg Woods wrote:
>> but since Apache projects cannot use GPL-licensed code, the
>> reverse is not true. So it will not be too long before LibreOffice
>> leaves OpenOffice behind IMHO.
> 
>     I thought  Apache license 2 was compatible with GPLv3.

That's true however Apache foundation does not use any other license
other than Apache and GPLv3 compatibility with Apache v2 is one way only
since GPL is a reciprocal license and Apache is a permissive license.

Rahul






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