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| <h2>Licenses & Copyrights for the www.openoffice.org website</h2> |
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| <p>Portions of www.openoffice.org are Copyright 1999, 2010 by contributing authors and Oracle and/or its affiliates.</p> |
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| <p>Sections or single pages are covered by certain licenses. If a license notice is displayed, you may use the content of |
| that page according to that license.</p> |
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| <p>In all other cases, the page is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 |
| <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html">(ALv2)</a>.</p> |
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| <h2>Apache OpenOffice software</h2> |
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| <p>Apache OpenOffice releases are made available under the <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html"> |
| Apache License 2.0</a>.</p> |
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| <h2>Licenses of Legacy Releases of OpenOffice.org software</h2> |
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| <p>Apache Releases follow specific policies concerning licensing that are closely tied to the branding of the product. It |
| still may be possible, however, to find older releases through third parties or Internet archives that lie out of the |
| control of the Apache Project. For this reason it is highly recommended to review carefully the documentation included with |
| the software.<p> |
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| <p>For past releases under the SUN/Oracle umbrella, OpenOffice.org used a single open-source license for the source code and |
| a separate documentation license for most documents published on the website without the intention of being included in the |
| product. The source-code license was the GNU Lesser General Public License. Effective OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta, |
| OpenOffice.org used the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html">LGPL v3</a>. The document license was the Public |
| Document License (PDL).</p> |
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| <p>Works beside code donated to the project under cover of the Oracle Contributor Agreement (OCA) were held jointly by |
| Oracle for the project under the project's prevailing license, in this case, the LGPL v.3. Even if you had already submitted |
| a copyright agreement (e.g., the SCA or its predecessors), you could also sign the PDL per work contributed, in which case |
| the PDL took precedence. In some cases, the use of the <span class="Header"> Creative Commons Attribution License ( |
| <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/">"Attribution-NoDerivs 2.5"</a>) was also permitted. See |
| <a href="#below">below</a> for details on the circumstances of using this license.</span></p> |
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| Public Document License (PDL) |
| <a href="licenses/pdl.pdf">PDF</a> | |
| <a href="licenses/PDL.html">HTML</a> | |
| <a href="licenses/PDL.rtf">RTF (text)</a> |
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| <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html"> |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3</a> (LGPL) (Effective with OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta) |
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| <p>You can freely modify, extend, and improve the OpenOffice.org source code. The LGPL requires that all changes must be |
| made available if published. For more information on the LGPL, please also visit the: |
| <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html" target="_blank">Free Software Foundation's FAQ</a>.</p> |
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| <p class="Header"><a id="below"></a>Other Works</p> |
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| <p>The preference was always for contributions of editable work. But in those cases where editable material was difficult to |
| obtain, there were several options; all presumed that the developer held copyright in the work:</p> |
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| <li>Developers would have signed a Contributor Agreement, which covers all work (and not just code) contributed to |
| OpenOffice.org;</li> |
| <li>In countries where laws allow it, the developer could make it public domain by declaring as much in a signed document; |
| or</li> |
| <li><span class="Header">developers could use the Creative Commons Attribution License ( |
| <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/">"Attribution-NoDerivs 2.5"</a>). SUN/Oracle only |
| accepted work under this license that was non-editable and for which there was no editable version that could be |
| contributed to the project.</span></li> |
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