IBM is the source code of Lotus Symphony under a Apache 2.0 license release to Apache OpenOffice.org. The step means a push in the back of the project, that was recently published by Oracle to the Apache foundation was donated.
IBM’s ODF Architect Rob Weir, made the donation Friday at the Plugfest in Berlin known. Lotus Symphony is based on OpenOffice.org. Weir admits, however, that the developers at IBM are not the best community members were the contributions of code and that Lotus Symphony is in fact a fork. There he wants now to change this. Weir had already rather excited about the fact that Oracle of OpenOffice.org again a really communityproject made, by it under the Apache Foundation.
Weir promises that IBM will help in choosing the components that are in Apache OpenOffice.org built-in can be. According to him, for example, IBM’s implementation of vba macro support into account. Also the interface of Symphony is, according to him, is a good candidate. He acknowledges that this is a big job would be, but the user interface of Symphony would be a good review, so he is a discussion would be welcome. Also, Weir announced a new incubatieproject for the ODF Toolkit in Apache. In the next few months the contributions of IBM to Apache OpenOffice.org of the ground.