More Oracle Open Source Fallout

[richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Richard Pieri)]

On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:03 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> 
> depends on how they're linked.  If the various other GPL libraries and so
> forth get linked into the binaries of openoffice, then the openoffice
> binaries constitute a "derivative work" of the GPL code, and the openoffice
> source code must be released under GPL compatible terms.  But if they can
[snip]

This is why OpenOffice.org is distributed under the LGPL and not, as was mentioned previously, under the GPL.

--Rich P.