Sun Industry Standards Source License

The SISSL (Sun Industry Standards Source License ) is an introduced by Sun Microsystems software license. She has been certified by the Open Source Initiative ( OSI) as free.

Mainly, this license applies to the standard XML and the APIs that are used for OpenOffice.org. The license says that you can do with the licensed under their code, as long as you maintain these two standards. Otherwise, the changes must be made ​​public.

Sun has announced on 2 September 2005, neither the use SISSL themselves in the future, to recommend to others to use. Also, OpenOffice.org has therefore decided not to use this License in the future.

The most famous users of OpenOffice.org code based on the SISSL license is IBM that use the SISSL - licensed code for their IBM Workplace software.