“We welcome highly-focused, emerging projects from individual contributors, as well as those with robust developer communities, global user bases, and strong corporate backing,” said Jim Jagielski, president of the Apache Software Foundation. Then in April, Oracle announced that it would no longer offer a commercial version of the software, and that it plans to move the suite to a purely community-based open source project. That in of itself stymies the open source movement.Ī group of developers broke off from Oracle last year to establish the Document Foundation, a group dedicated to continuing the work started with the original, and create the new LibreOffice open-source office suite. One of the community’s major gripes was the difficulty in merging code contributions from different sources.
Oracle got its mitts on when it acquired Sun, but didn’t address many of the OpenOffice community’s beefs with the office suite. Should this happen, will become a part of the Apache Incubator and operate under a permissive license, which means that there will be more flexibility in implementing source code changes, and there will no longer be a need to mandate the publication of such changes. Oracle has released a proposal that would transfer open source office suite to the Apache Software Foundation.
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