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eWeek: Sun Changes OpenOffice.org Licensing

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

“Last Friday, Sun Microsystems Inc. quietly announced that it
was retiring the Sun Industry Standard Source License, which has
been most prominently used in OpenOffice.org, the leading
open-source office suite.

“With SISSL retired, OO.o will be licensed under the LGPL,
according to Sun’s chief open-source officer, Simon Phipps…”

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