
What is Open Document Format?īoth LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice use Open Document Format (ODF), a file format consisting of zipped XML files. This practice is perfectly legal, but sometimes involves using different icons and making other minor changes. Several other organizations repackage both LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice, sometimes under different names. Despite having different version numbers, LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice are similar in most features. Today, no longer exists, but Apache OpenOffice does. Eventually, Oracle gave its rights in the code to The Apache Foundation. When Oracle bought Sun in 2010, LibreOffice started developing its own version of, as the code’s license permits. LibreOffice is descended from, a free and open source software project run for years by Sun Microsystems. Since it is free software, you can even make your own changes in it if you have the skill.

It is released under a free license that lets you use it legally on as many machines as you want, and share it with others. LibreOffice is an office suite that runs on 32 and 64 bit versions of Linux, OS X, and Windows.
