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LibreOffice community protests at promotion of paid-for editions, board says: 'LibreOffice will always be free software'

the spectacularly refined chap

Re: @AC - Remember Open Office

It's quite the opposite: the GPL doesn't allow redistribution except under GPL terms in totality. Sure, you can't add terms but you can't remove them either. The OO licence is actually more permissive but it allows you to impose additional terms on top. The conditions the GPL applies remain on any code flowing in the opposite direction.

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