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Posted to commits@openoffice.apache.org by bu...@apache.org on 2015/01/28 16:52:38 UTC
svn commit: r938062 - in /websites/staging/ooo-site/trunk: cgi-bin/ content/
content/why/why_compliance.html
Author: buildbot
Date: Wed Jan 28 15:52:38 2015
New Revision: 938062
Log:
Staging update by buildbot for ooo-site
Modified:
websites/staging/ooo-site/trunk/cgi-bin/ (props changed)
websites/staging/ooo-site/trunk/content/ (props changed)
websites/staging/ooo-site/trunk/content/why/why_compliance.html
Propchange: websites/staging/ooo-site/trunk/cgi-bin/
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Modified: websites/staging/ooo-site/trunk/content/why/why_compliance.html
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--- websites/staging/ooo-site/trunk/content/why/why_compliance.html (original)
+++ websites/staging/ooo-site/trunk/content/why/why_compliance.html Wed Jan 28 15:52:38 2015
@@ -49,13 +49,14 @@ for their proprietary product public and
and more worries. This is the increased cost of compliance when copyleft software is brought into an organization. This is not necessarily a bad thing. It is just the reality of
using open source software under these licenses, and must be weighed in considered as one cost-driver among many.</p>
<h2 id="the-apache-advantage">The Apache Advantage</h2>
-<p>However, not all open source licenses are copyleft license. Not all of them have that viral quality that radically increases the risk for an organization. A subset of open source
+<p>However, not all open source licenses are copyleft license. A subset of open source
licenses, generally called "permissive" licenses, are much more friendly for corporate use. These licenses include the MIT and BSD licenses, as well as the
<a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">Apache Software License 2.0</a> that we use for Apache OpenOffice.</p>
<p>Like other open source licenses, the Apache License explicitly allows you to copy and redistribute the covered product, without any license fees or royalties. But because it is a
permissive license, it also allows you to prepare and distribute derivative products, without requiring you to make your own source code public. So both BSA and SFLC/FSF risks
are eliminated, and the cost, to your business, of license compliance is greatly reduced.</p>
-<p><em>Views expressed in this page are not necessarily endorsed by the Apache Software Foundation.</em></p>
+<p><em>The Apache Software Foundation does not take a position, recommend or advise the use or non-use
+of any particular software license or family of licenses.</em></p>
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