Apache Open Office

Open source since forever, open license recently. No more license objections, it's totally cool now ... except possibly for memory consumption.

Oh, and also a huge, long-running debate about the merits or not of ​ Apache Licensing, which for my purposes I leave to the experts.

Links

OpenOffice	​https://www.openoffice.org/
OpenOffice Docs	​https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation
OpenOffice API	​http://www.openoffice.org/api/
Uno Development Kit	​http://www.openoffice.org/udk/
Developers Guide	​https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/OpenOffice.org_Developers_Guide

AOO Wiki

​https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page

Note that for all the good PyUno functionality, Java still rules the AOO roost, with considerably more fine-grained integration capabilities than Python. See ​https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Uno/Java versus ​https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Python.

Also See

Notes/PythonOpenOffice

​ LibreOffice, which runs more or less parallel to OpenOffice, with less resource consumption.

​ LibreOffice API