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Poison pill ... ?
The JTA is a poison pill that negates the LGPL license...

No, it simply shares copyright between the submitter and Sun. Whether this is agreeable to authors is another matter, but it certainly does not negate the license.

And no, you can not fork OpenOffice once this occurs unless you want to get sued by Sun for copyright infringement.

You couldn't fork Sun's version, but you could fork the code which had been released up until that point.

From Sun's web site:
"Can Sun ever take away the code?

The simple answer to this is NO. Once code is released under the LGPL, it can never be taken away. Sun has no plans to return to a closed development model. Sun continues to contribute modifications under the LGPL. Thus, Sun can never take away the code and the community's contributions to it. This code belongs to the community as guaranteed by the LGPL."

Under the LGPL, the released code is always available, no matter what.
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