6/12/2023 0 Comments Libreoffice cloud![]() Likewise, the codebase for the new project is likely to be licensed under the same terms as LibreOffice - the Mozilla Public License, which allows its code to be intermingled with other, proprietary code, but ensures that the MPL-licensed code remains freely available. "The need for is very clear, and it is great to marry IceWarp's vision and support with Collabora's ability to execute on that." That said, "clearly it is impossible to do anything here without acknowledging the huge body of LibreOffice contributors."Ĭollabora is planning to maintain and update LibreOffice Online's code after its release, keeping it in sync with the main LibreOffice project. "I've been working away at this problem - building the prototype while at Suse, and and pitching this for some years," he said. Meeks has been attempting to launch LibreOffice Online for some time. "There are some great privacy implications in the blue-sky future to being able to host yourself as an individual," said Michael Meeks, general manager at Collabora Productivity, in an email. One immediate possibility with the product release is the ability to host an instance of LibreOffice Online on the hardware of one's choosing. Eventually, the feature set will be expanded, though Collabora hasn't provided a time frame. One feature explicitly described is a common selling point for Office Online and Google Docs alike - the simultaneous, multi-user editing of documents. At first, LibreOffice online will more closely resemble LibreOffice Editor for Android, with "a subset of the features available in LibreOffice desktop versions," according to Collabora. The full gamut of features won't be rolled out right away. ![]() Collabora claims it can achieve this kind of fidelity "by using the same rendering engine as LibreOffice desktop (via LibreOfficeKit)" - in other words, by reusing the original application's C++ source code. Documents created in Office Online and Google Docs can typically be exported to and edited in desktop suites without issues, but after multiple round trips between desktop apps, those services typically work for documents that use only the most rudimentary features. ![]()
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