[CW] OT But Free

[Dennis Berry]

Thanks for clearing that up Gene.  These buyouts and IP and Public License 
issues certainly can get the layman confused at times.

Now, back to cw issues...

dennis, nu8s


> 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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