OpenOffice.org split to LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice.org
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 10:00 am
Due to a fallout between the developers and Oracle, OpenOffice.org has split to become LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org has not been developed / updated in over a year. LibreOffice is much improved and faster than OpenOffice.org, and fixes a number of bugs that OpenOffice.org still has. LibreOffice is being developed extensively and has frequent updates.
LibreOffice is licensed under the terms of the LGPLv3 (new contributions are dual-licensed under both LGPLv3+ and MPL). This means you're free to use it for personal and commercial use, you're free to copy it and give copies away, and you're free to modify and redesign the source code, and to create derivative works.
Apache says that there going to start developing Apache OpenOffice.org, but in the mean time, LibreOffice is better than OpenOffice.org.
Both LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org open up the same document formats and whatever you can do on OpenOffice.org can be done in LibreOffice. It also has better support with Microsoft Office documents as well.
Can the following page be updated to include LibreOffice as an office software to use on church computers to make people more aware of it?
https://tech.lds.org/wiki/Software
LibreOffice is licensed under the terms of the LGPLv3 (new contributions are dual-licensed under both LGPLv3+ and MPL). This means you're free to use it for personal and commercial use, you're free to copy it and give copies away, and you're free to modify and redesign the source code, and to create derivative works.
Apache says that there going to start developing Apache OpenOffice.org, but in the mean time, LibreOffice is better than OpenOffice.org.
Both LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org open up the same document formats and whatever you can do on OpenOffice.org can be done in LibreOffice. It also has better support with Microsoft Office documents as well.
Can the following page be updated to include LibreOffice as an office software to use on church computers to make people more aware of it?
https://tech.lds.org/wiki/Software