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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:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> Date:Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:28:49 -0800
Apache OO, like Libre Office, is a fork of the Star/Sun/Oracle OO, which is
now defunct. Oracle donated the code to ASF after it fired its remaining
Star team and the company no longer has any role in OO development.
Gene Kim-Eng
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>wrote:
> 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.
>
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