Possible solution to different licencing...
Jagielski points out that while the ASF has always been willing to cooperate with TDF and LibreOffice, the relationship has been mostly one-way due to differences in the software licenses governing the two projects. The licensing differences mean that LibreOffice (Mozilla Public License v2) can incorporate OpenOffice (Apache License v2) code changes but OpenOffice cannot do the same with LibreOffice improvements unless the code supports ALv2.
Surely the obvious solution is to terminate the current OpenOffice code tree, take a fork of LO, and create a new OO code tree with an ALv2 license. Or is there some (commercial) benefit to ALv2 that is missing from the MPLv2?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
