LibreOffice on Fedora

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 01/28/2011 12:22 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at 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