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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 22:45:53 -0400
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Alexei Fedotov <alexei.fedotov@gmail.com> wrote on 06/01/2011 01:38:43 PM:

> 
> OpenOffice is used in our product [1] we want to submit to the
> incubator. We promised to show that we can gradually clean up LGPL
> from the code and were working on that [2]. We'd have one less
> head-ache with OO under Apache License (even if we don't statically
> linking it, GPL does not define linking).
> 
> If some guys would consider merging back changes from Lotus Symphony
> and some other guys wouldn't be abandoning OO in this nice, polite and
> gentle way, I'd really like the change.
>
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>[1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenmeetingsProposal

Hi Alexei, I'm not familiar with OpenMeetings.  Can you say a little more 
about how it uses OpenOffice?  In particular, does it reuse the OpenOffice 
binaries as-is?  Does it extend OpenOffice via scripts or plugins?  Or 
does it require making core source code modifications and rebuilding?  Or 
something else?

I'm just trying to better understand the nature of the dependency, so we 
can better coordinate on this.
Regards,

-Rob

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