Ownership
The project and software are informally referred to as OpenOffice, but since this term is a trademark held by other parties, OpenOffice.org was its formal name. Due to a similar trademark issue, the Brazilian Portuguese version of the suite was distributed under the name BrOffice.org. Stewardship of the slightly re-branded BrOffice builds was moved to The Document Foundation in December 2010.
From 1999-2010 Sun Microsystems managed the development of OpenOffice.org. Developers who wished to contribute code were required to sign a Contributor Agreement granting joint ownership of any contributions to Oracle Corporation. An alternative Public Documentation Licence (PDL) was also offered for documentation not intended for inclusion or integration into the project code base. From 2010-2011 Oracle managed the development of OpenOffice.org. after it acquired Sun.
On 1 June 2011, Oracle announced that the code base of OpenOffice had been proposed for submission to the Apache Software Foundation as an Incubator project. On 13 June, it was officially accepted as an incubator project.
On 18 October 2012 it was announced that OpenOffice had graduated from incubation to being a top level apache project and is now known officially as Apache OpenOffice.
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