 Permalink for comment 475590 Member since:  It seems pretty
cool that OpenOffice will now gain developers from Apache and
from IBM. Now ... if libreoffice really wants to merge the
codebase, they could just relicense their stuff under a dual
LGPL3 and/or Apache license, so the best of both projects can
still be merged or at least so that both projects will remain
compatible at a source level for a while. After all, it was
libreoffice who forked so it should be them who merge back.  The
Apache 2.0 license is a liberal non-copyleft license. AFAIK this
means that both open source code and closed source code can be
contributed to an Apache 2.0 license project.  LibreOffice is
licensed under LGPL v3. This copyleft license means that no
closed-source components can be accepted.  So from now, open
source code contributed to ASF OpenOffice can be adopted (and
re-licensed as LGPL v3) by LibreOffice, and LGPL v3 code
contibuted to LibreOffice can be incorporated into ASF
OpenOffice (but it must remain LGPL v3, and cop