The Document Foundation is willing to begin talks with ASF, it added. The Apache community, which we respect enormously, has very different expectations and norms - licensing, membership, and more - to the existing and LibreOffice projects." "The step Oracle has taken today was no doubt taken in good faith, but does not appear to directly achieve this goal. "The Document Foundation would welcome the reuniting of the and LibreOffice projects into a single community of equals in the wake of the departure of Oracle."īut that process won't be automatic, it added. "It is great to see key user features released in a form that can be included into LibreOffice," it stated. The Document Foundation hailed Oracle's move in a blog post Wednesday, albeit with some caveats.
Oracle had clashed with members of the community, some of whom broke off to form an offshoot project called LibreOffice and a related group, the Document Foundation.
But the vendor scrapped both applications in April, ostensibly due to a lack of interest from customers. It also announced a related product, Oracle Cloud Office. Oracle, which acquired through the purchase of Sun Microsystems, made a brief go at selling a commercial version of the suite under the name Oracle Open Office.
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