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</div>AOO really seems to have degenerated into IBM's private playground. (No<br>
wonder, they're the only ones who benefit from the braindead non-copyleft<br>
licensing.)<br>
<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Talking of licensing...</div><div style><br></div><div style>Since this has been approved I'm curious as to the method by which the non-conflict with LO is to be achieved...</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I was browsing the AOO archives when I came upon Andrea's thread there about AOO in F19...</div><div style><br></div><div style><a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201301.mbox/%3C5109384E.60606%40apache.org%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201301.mbox/%3C5109384E.60606%40apache.org%3E</a></div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Going through it Andrea has kept a very level head with respect to wanting to work with Fedora to get the packages built and in but there is a lot of dispute surrounding the oowriter etc situation...</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Please read the full thread for context but as an example:</div><div style><br></div><div style><a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201302.mbox/%3CCAP-ksojB20qDs5ORK_nHiRj142-KosAPioSHC5yxCSTj6OVH1w@mail.gmail.com%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201302.mbox/%3CCAP-ksojB20qDs5ORK_nHiRj142-KosAPioSHC5yxCSTj6OVH1w@mail.gmail.com%3E</a><br>
</div><div style><br></div><div style>This made me think of the reminder that had to be given to Oracle about the Fedora principles and how friendship is a key one...</div><div style><br></div><div style>There's been little discussion of this since the earlier part of the month on either mailing list and and no commits to the LO git or bugzilla bugs I have been able to find about dealing with conflict and bringing this package in...</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>So what's the plan in mind?</div><div style><br></div><div style>Is the existing orphaned <a href="http://openoffice.org">openoffice.org</a> package in Fedora going to have Andrea as a maintainer and then this new code committed?</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Is this considered to be a completely fresh new package to go through the usual new package guidelines (plus sponsorship for a new packager)?</div><div style><br></div><div style>Will Andrea be maintainer of the package or someone else in the AOO group? There didn't seem to be much enthusiasm there in packaging themselves...</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201302.mbox/%3C5112B95E.3010406@apache.org%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201302.mbox/%3C5112B95E.3010406@apache.org%3E</a><br>
</div><div style><br></div><div style>That was the last message there and there's no wiki page I could find on the <a href="http://oo.org">oo.org</a> wikis about packaging for F19 and nothing the in <a href="http://oo.org">oo.org</a> bugzilla instance on <a href="http://issues.apache.org">issues.apache.org</a> ... </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>So... plan?</div><div style><br></div></div></div></div>