IBM to contribute Symphony to OpenOffice.org

[Development] Posted Jul 14, 2011 16:17 UTC (Thu) by corbet

IBM's Rob Weir, noting that "we at IBM have not been exemplary community members when it came to OpenOffice.org," has announced that IBM will be contributing its "Symphony" OpenOffice.org fork to the new Apache-based OpenOffice project. "First, we're going to contribute the standalone version of Lotus Symphony to the Apache OpenOffice.org project, under the Apache 2.0 license. We'll also work with project members to prioritize which pieces make sense to integrate into OpenOffice. For example, we've already done a lot of work with replacing GPL/LPGL dependencies. Using the Symphony code could help accelerate that work and get us to an AOOo release faster."

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