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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I am dealing with a variant of that elsewhere. Incompatible open source licenses which won't permit code intended to be reused because it has a different license than the project that might use it make my irony meter peg offscale.
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Not really. The point of the GPL is that you very specifically want copyleft.
Open-source is not just about letting other people use code -- it's also about politically controlling what they can do with it.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The code hasn't diverged that much. Both will still handle MS Office files, which is the normal reason they get picked.
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There is a bit more to it, I think, than just "does it open MS Office files".
LibreOffice has more developers and a bigger active community, so it gets developed (and bugfixed) faster.
LibreOffice has better support for importing MS Office formats, and actually supports saving
to MS Office formats.
They also got rolling with Coverity and apparently spent quite some time systematically fixing every bug it reported.
IME LibreOffice starts much faster and runs more smoothly.
So yeah, the code has diverged enough to be a meaningfully different product. Just because it is a HUGE project based on the same codebase and hasn't changed enough to be completely unrecognizable, doesn't mean it hasn't changed.
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I run Libre Office under Windows and Linux on the desktop. On Android, I run Open Office, because there's an actual working port. Libre Office is still in early alpha state on Android.
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Hmm, well, I guess that is actually a good point.
