LibreOffice on Fedora

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 01:55:20 UTC 2011


On 01/27/2011 07:14 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Read carefully what you are quoting.  The license is LGPL and not GPL
> Lesser GPL is what it implies.
>
> I take GPL and LGPL as part of the same family of licenses.  ie GPL
> and LGPL have more in common than, say, the BSD license.
I am well aware of all that but nothing you are saying contradicts what
I said.  Openoffice is not under the GPL license. 

> I don´t even know what we´re discussing anymore, and I´m not even sure
> what you meant or were trying to prove with the phrase "Openoffice.org
> codebase is not under GPL but even in that case, different vendors
> have different considerations."

I wasn't replying to Sam Varshavchik about patent considerations and how
the license affects that.  You cut the latter part of the email.  Feel
free to read the thread again if anything in unclear.

Rahul


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