OpenOffice uses the Apache License, whereas LibreOffice uses a dual LGPLv3/Mozilla Public license. For some legal reasons, then, anything OpenOffice does can be incorporated into LibreOffice, the ...

Oracle has given the OpenOffice office suite to Apache, with IBM's blessing. The Document Foundation, creators of the LibreOffice, an OpenOffice fork, can live with this move.

To be sure, the new Apache OpenOffice 3.4 brings some key new things to the table, including faster startup, a speedier linear programming solver, an Apache Tomcat update, and much more.

The code base for the sidebar actually came from IBM’s short-lived Lotus Symphony office suite, which was a 2007 fork of OpenOffice that IBM contributed back to OpenOffice in 2012.

More details have emerged about the forthcoming cloud-based version of Apache OpenOffice (AOO). A cloud version of OpenOffice writer, AOO's document editor, was shown at a presentation at the ...