[Libreoffice] All Sun/Oracle code upgraded to LGPLv3?

drew drew at baseanswers.com
Thu Aug 11 08:55:02 PDT 2011


On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 10:15 +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
> Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> > [Postgresql connector]
> >
> > And the libreoffice pre-commit hooks complain about that. I was
> > wondering if by any chance there is a general authorisation by Sun /
> > Oracle that relicenses *all* OpenOffice-related code to LGPLv3 that
> > would apply _also_ to this code?
> > 
> Hi Lionel,
> 
> I'm afraid there is not. Unless there's any newer version of that
> file somewhere officially released, the best course of action is to
> ask on the ooo-dev at incubator.apache.org list, to have all files you
> need for this added to the Oracle source code grant to Apache
> (Andrew Rist is the one managing that on the Oracle side).

If you like I can follow up on that, both hit the apache list and maybe
it's worth a quick email to the original contributor, if that makes
sense.

//drew



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