On 01/28/2011 12:22 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Rahul Sundaram metherid@gmail.com wrote:
I am well aware of all that but nothing you are saying contradicts what I said. Openoffice is not under the GPL license.
OpenOffice.org is LGPL.
It was an error on my part, I often use "GPL" as a generic term to mean "GPL or LPGL" meaning "Free Software under GNU licenses".
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html
I´m not writing a white paper or encyclopedic text.
When it comes to licensing or anything legal for that matter, it helps to be precise. If you don't care about that, fine but I don't want to add to the confusion that already exists LGPL and GPL despite related to each other but one cannot equate the two Even GPLv2 and GPLv3 has a big difference in dealing with patents for instance.
Rahul