[NTLUG:Discuss] Any hope for *Office unification

[Leroy Tennison]

On 06/28/2011 04:24 AM, Ralph Green wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 00:08 -0500, Leroy Tennison wrote:
>> Noted Oracle's drop of commercial OpenOffice and then their donation of
>> the source code to the Apache Foundation.  Wondering what the hope is of
>> Libre and Open being able to share improvements any time in the near
> Howdy,
>    Well.  There can be sharing, but it is only one way.  LibreOffice can
> use code in the OpenOffice project, but not the other way.  There is
> lots of speculation about why it came out the way it did.  The most
> plausible to me says it is because of IBM requirements.  IBM is a
> licensee of the OpenOffice code and they have made a number of changes
> to what they call Symphony.  They are not will ing to open their source
> code, so the LibreOffice license meant they would not get any more
> updates from the community.
> Good day,
> Ralph
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I'm more confused than I was,  why is it (not why it came about) that 
OpenOffice can't use LibreOffice code?  What aspect of the LibreOffice 
license is causing problems?