Andrew Wyatt wrote:
> They reserved the right to compile and distribute a closed source
> version of open office if I remember correctly. It was part of sun's
> community source license I think.
Actually, OpenOffice is GPL. This is why the OpenOffice is getting
so much more support without any questions asked unlike any other
Sun project that is not GPL.
Sun can value-add additional components to the GPL components when
repackaging. It can also modify and release a non-GPL version of
any GPL components they hold 100% copyright of the source code on.
This is known as dual-licensed GPL -- again, provided you hold 100%
of the copyrights on all the GPL code. You do this by either
writing all the software yourself, licensing the rights from others
for their various sections/patents (like individual OpenOffice
devotees), etc...
-- TheBS
-- Bryan "TheBS" Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org chat:thebs413 Engineer AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. http://www.linux-wlan.org President SmithConcepts, Inc. http://www.SmithConcepts.com
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