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OpenOffice.org Goes to LGPLv3

“You may recall that a team from Sun devoted a great deal of
time to the process of drafting the GPLv3. Our engagement was not
just the monitoring exercise that I suspect it was for many of the
corporate participants. It was always my hope that Sun would use
the license for significant software projects.

“Since then, the FSF has made some welcome clarifications to the
license and Sun released its first project, Openxvm, as GPLv3. The
next step for us has been to review the licensing for
OpenOffice.org…”

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