Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Greg Stein <gstein@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ben explained much of this already, but let's see if I can add some more:
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 14:46, plino <pedlino@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In the context of a public free Office Suite isn't that the same? If under
> > GPL you MUST release the source as GPL, isn't that in practical terms the
> > same as releasing the modifications you made???
>
> Nope. Again, because I only need to release it to the people that I
> gave a binary to. That is not the same as "the community making the
> software".

I think you missed the "public free Office Suite" bit.  In that case
the "people you gave the binary to" is "anyone who wants it", which
would include the developers if they want to use the source code.  So
in this case, in practice, having the code as GPL means you must give
the code back to the developers, or rather you must make the code
available for the developers to get for themselves.  This is the
situation software suites like IBM's would have fallen under.

-Todd

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