On 28 September 2010, several members of the OpenOffice.org project formed a new group called "The Document Foundation". The Document Foundation created LibreOffice from their former project in response to Oracle Corporation's purchasing of Sun Microsystems over concerns that Oracle would either discontinue OpenOffice.org, or place restrictions on it as an open source project, as it had on Sun's OpenSolaris.
It was originally hoped that the LibreOffice name would be provisional, as Oracle was invited to become a member of The Document Foundation. Oracle rejected requests to donate the OpenOffice.org brand to the project and demanded that all members of the OpenOffice.org Community Council involved with The Document Foundation step down from the OOo Community Council, citing a conflict of interest.
LibreOffice was initially named BrOffice in Brazil. OpenOffice.org was distributed as BrOffice.org by the BrOffice Centre of Excellence for Free Software because of a trademark issue.
Another fork of OpenOffice.org, Go-oo, merged into LibreOffice very early on. Since most Linux distributions already used Go-oo (and just called it OpenOffice) that meant a large number of distributions changed to LibreOffice very early since for them it meant little change. Switching back to OpenOffice would have meant a conscious change and no major distribution took that route.
By 2013 the founding aims of The Document Foundation were achieved. Hosting infrastructure had been set-up and enlarged to cope with increased demand The Document Foundation was officially as a german non-profit foundation.
As a result of the fork of OpenOffice.org into LibreOffice, Oracle announced in April 2011 that it was ending its development of OpenOffice.org and would release the majority of its paid developers. In June 2011, Oracle announced that it would donate the OpenOffice.org code and trademark to the Apache Software Foundation, where the project was accepted for a project incubation process within the foundation.
In June 2011 Google, Free Software Foundation, Red Hat, SUSE, SPI and Freies Office Deutschland e.V. each contributed one employee to The Document Foundation's Advisory Board to serve for an initial term of one year.
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