| Weblog: | Opening the potential of OpenOffice.org | |
| Subject: | Community-building | |
| Date: | 2005-09-18 08:59:23 | |
| From: | moksha | |
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OpenOffice might be "open source", but is it truly Free software? There are issues, like the use of (non-free) Java. It's not fully GPL'd. That's the reason for a lack of developers. Want to get more people excited about OpenOffice? Here's some practical advice: make it fully free.
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2005-09-18 18:28:21 eeanm [View]
I really doubt there are many open source developers who care that much about the issues of Java being not-GPL. In fact, there are probably plenty of Java developers who enjoy the opportunity to contribute.
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2005-09-18 17:13:46 dmh [View]
This is really starting to sound more and more like FUD. OpenOffice.org is free/open source software, licensed under the LGPL. As far as free/open source Java platforms go GCJ compiles it well enough for Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. What more do you need for it to be "fully free"?
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