Sun puts an open source licence to bed

Posted by tadelste on Sep 5, 2005 6:28 AM EDT
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The Sun Industry Standards Source License has been retired, and the OSI wants more licences to follow the same path.

Retiring the SISSL means that the OpenOffice.org software will be covered by just one licence, the LGPL, according to the project's Web site. "Projects currently using the SISSL under a dual-licence scheme, such as OpenOffice.org, are dropping the SISSL and thus simplifying their licence scheme as soon as the development cycle allows," the site said.

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This would be a huge step for the community tadelste 9 1,273 Sep 6, 2005 1:41 PM

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