On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 03:14:12 pm Rahul Sundaram did opine:
On 01/27/2011 12:44 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Packages are in the repository because someone is volunteering to maintain them. No because of any voting.
So if someone from Oracle choose to build and maintain it for Fedora and cleared any trademark issues, it would be okay?.
It doesn't require a person from Oracle. *Anyone* interested enough to volunteer can do it.
Isn´t "Firefox" also trademaked by Mozilla Inc.? Am I missing something?
I didn't say anything about trademarks but anyone volunteering to package any software has to take into consideration the trademark guidelines of the software in question. For Firefox, if you patch it without upstream signing off on the patches, you will have to rename the software. I don't think there are any problems with Openoffice.org trademark for the purposes of packaging it in Fedora.
Rahul
What about LibreOffice?
IMO it should be one or the other, and given the politics involved, I personally would prefer that LibreOffice gets the nod by most of the distro's that do not somehow, have a dog in this fight.
Interestingly, I note that a day after LO announces a final 3.3, so does OOo. To me that brings up a question that is OT for this list, but if you let your imagination out to play without a chaperon, you all will ask it too.