Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by mbreedlove 5155 days ago
I'd follow LibreOffice, it's more feature rich, plus LibreOffice is licensed under the Mozilla Public License and LGPL3, which means OpenOffice won't be able to use all the progress LibreOffice has made. I have a feeling OpenOffice has a very short lifespan at this point. I am however in no way an expert on either of the two, this is just what I have read over the months.
1 comments
luke_s 5155 days ago
Can LibreOffice use the improvements to OpenOffice? If so, it seems like the relationship could become quite one sided with LO able to pull in all the fixes to OO and use that to move further ahead, but with OO unable to re-use any of the LO work.
link
kijin 5155 days ago
OO uses the Apache License, which would allow LO to pull any change it wants. Of course it doesn't work the other way around, because LO's licenses are more copyleft. So you're right, it could get quite one-sided.
link
mbreedlove 5155 days ago
I believe they can, the Apache license is quite permissive, allowing LO to use features added to OO, not the other way around, however.
link