StarOffice under the GPL ?

Brian Behlendorf brian at collab.net
Wed Aug 9 05:33:02 UTC 2000


On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 kmself at ix.netcom.com wrote:
> StarOffice will be released under the GNU General Public License and the
> SISL (a Sun-written variant of the Mozilla Public License) on October
> 13, 2000.

Actually SISSL is quite different from Mozilla.  It uses some common
definitions which is why is appears similar at first, but it is much less
restrictive overall than the MPL.  There *is* a Sun Public License modeled
after the NPL, pretty much s/Netscape/Sun/, which Netbeans was released
under (www.netbeans.org).

SISSL has been submitted to OSI for approval and is being considered.

	Brian






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