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Re: Open source alternate to Visio on Win7 (for diagramming)
Subject:Re: Open source alternate to Visio on Win7 (for diagramming) From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 5 Mar 2014 08:34:05 -0800
OpenOffice is distributed under Apache 2.0 and LibreOffice under
Mozilla 2.0. Both include third-party components under various other
public licenses. Those differences are irrelevant to end users.
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:19 AM, McLauchlan, Kevin
<Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
> you probably agreed to generally observe GPL or Lesser-GPL, or some flavor of the BSD license, or the Apache licenses, or any of several other widely used source licensing schemes for the "open" source code that was used in the product. During installation, you likely saw some legalese go by, and probably had to click to acknowledge.
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