[CW] OT But Free

[Gene Buckle]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Dennis Berry wrote:

> I thought OpenOffice was Java based, Sun owned Java and now Oracle owns
> Java.  So if anything, (if my thinking on the ownership is correct) Oracle
> may want a small 'fee' for including a part of the Java code in OpenOffice
> whereas I think Sun had made it free to the developers.
>
Oracle owning Java doesn't mean they own code written IN Java. 
OpenOffice/LibreOffice is licensed under the Lesser Gnu Public License. 
Oracle is welcome to charge whatever they like for OpenOffice, but they 
must provide the source code to anyone that asks for it, free of charge.

> So it's not the open source code that they (Oracle) will contest, but the
> Intellectual Property that they purchased.  It will be interesting to see
> how Oracle will respond to all this.
>
OO.org contains no "IP" that Oracle can legally restrain others from 
using.

g.

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