Re: [LUG] Star Office, GPL licenses & Open Local Government ?

[Adrian Midgley <akm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 10 August 2002 10:54, you wrote:

> No they licenced it under the lesser GPL. 

> They even have a licencing FAQ.
>
> http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/main_faq_new_p4.html

Aha.  The confusion lessens, slightly.

Licencing it and positioning it as a collection of objects is not too 
dissimilar from what MS did with their office suite I think, starting around 
version 6 of Word.
Sensible in this respect.

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