Breakaway developers of OpenOffice.org announced Tuesday their group separate from Oracle and a new name for the open-source application suite.

The group called their independent organization The Document Foundation, which will distribute OpenOffice as "LibreOffice." The rebranding aims to avoid a trademark dispute with Oracle, which acquired Sun Microsystems and the open-source software early this year.

The free LibreOffice is already available for download on the TDF website, according to the foundation.

Charles H. Schulz, one of the TDF leaders and members, said Oracle has been invited to join the foundation and was asked to allow the group to use the name OpenOffice.org. Although Oracle owns the copyright to the code of the OpenOffice.org, Schulz said the code is under a free software license allowing others to modify and distribute it.

TDF claimed it has the support of major

OpenOffice.org became the most successful competitor to the Microsoft Office suite over the last 10 years. It has a free version of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.